Choice of glyphs

[-JKP-]

I was thinking about how a full set of numbers could be constructed from Voynich glyphs and it's not too hard to imagine one that's fairly rational.

Here's one idea...

i  s  iii  l   o   oi   a   d   y   k or t  and K or T and other gallows P F

or

i  ii  iii  l   o   oi   a   d   y   k or t  and t  K or T and other gallows P F

Five was sometimes written as "o" and seven was sometimes written almost like "a" (the old style 7 which is an upside-down vee with a slight hook on the bottom-left). In Greek, benched characters represent larger numbers (I've posted some examples on previous blogs), so those fit, as well.

Just an idea, but it shows it's not too difficult to devise a scheme that's almost all numbers that fits with medieval conventions.

I have actually tried to resolve this into numbers many times for one very simple but important reason... numbers are position dependent (15 is a different number from 51). And yes, c shapes might be minims as well. I've actually color-coded one of my transcripts this way.