17-08-2019, 08:10 PM
(17-08-2019, 03:12 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Here are the examples I posted on the other thread. Look at the letters "g" in the second row. The first one in the second row is from the VMS, the others are from a variety of manuscripts.
The ones in the first row are more common, but the ones in the second row are not uncommon. They are sometimes written with a different stroke order, but usually the "y" shape is written first and then the crossbar is added on the top. If the crossbar is not attached perfectly, it looks like a y with a macron, but it's not. We know from the context that they are the letter "g":
![[Image: LetterGExamples.png]](https://voynichportal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/LetterGExamples.png)
JP, I think I was mainly complaining about your "y" macron. I'm OK with the letter "g" but only because it can seen as alluding to the g's of the Sigillum Doornenburgensis. Everything they did had meaning and purpose. If you can't find meaning or purpose to any of your determinations, there can be no guarantee that you have deciphered it correctly.
I've seen the letter Lamed slanted to the left (like what we see on f57v) in right to left handwriting. I've also seen an instance where the upward shaft of Lamed was cut in half, with the top half laid out horizontally above the rest (now resembling our You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. figure), presumably to bring the height of the extra tall Lamed down to the level of the other letters. In that case, it would be a Lamed without a macron.
The letter Lamed also stands for the number 30 and that is the main reason I think it is Lamed. Note that a distance of 30 letters separates the 42-letter name from the 72-letter name. Both names were frequently referred to in medieval Hebrew literature.
![[Image: img-vms-42-72.jpg]](http://manuscrit-de-voynich.com/img-vms-42-72.jpg)
In the VMS, folio 42 is marked by the singular overwrite of an image and folio 72 (flip side) is marked by a double bar (from the alphabet line) pretending to be the number 11 and this is followed by the initials of michel nostradamus. That page also has a macron, octēbre, where October happens to be the only month directly named in the VMS prophecies.
Note the 30 splits into two 15's, and that folio 42 plus 15 equals 57 (our macron folio) plus another 15 takes us to folio 72.
In conclusion, I think the figure on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is deliberately ambiguous, intending to simultaneously represent the letter "g" and a ל with macron.