04-04-2019, 12:06 PM
Quote:I also do not think this is a palimpsest. but it is obvious that there is another text on some pages, for example, on the first. Most likely the parchment was with a couple of filled pages. The text from which was mechanically and chemically removed.
maby he didn't buy. maby he took from monks a parchment which was meant as a hymnal
When you buy a pack of parchment with a couple of filled pages, you won't use a filled page for the very first page of your manuscript
This has been discussed many times before, there are several rows of Latin and Voynichese characters in the right margin of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. which to all probability were left by a later owner in his attempt to decipher the text as a simple substitution cipher.
You are correct that there appear to be some extraneous writings here and there, most of them are well-discussed marginalia such as those in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. or f116v, but there are also some less known marginalia discovered quite recently, check the "Marginalia" subforum.