08-10-2019, 10:58 AM
I split this into a new thread, seems interesting enough to discuss separately.
To me it has always looked like the VM script "should" be fluent, with characters linked or tightly packed as in cursive, but they have still been written separately. It's spaced as if it were a majuscule script like uncial, while it looks more like a minuscule.
This might just be because Voynichese is no existing script and the scribes had no custom of linking glyphs?
On the other hand, something like Carolingian minuscule doesn't always link characters either, but still doesn't use such large and somewhat variable half spaces...
Do both main scribal hands in the VM use half-spaces in the same way?
To me it has always looked like the VM script "should" be fluent, with characters linked or tightly packed as in cursive, but they have still been written separately. It's spaced as if it were a majuscule script like uncial, while it looks more like a minuscule.
This might just be because Voynichese is no existing script and the scribes had no custom of linking glyphs?
On the other hand, something like Carolingian minuscule doesn't always link characters either, but still doesn't use such large and somewhat variable half spaces...
Do both main scribal hands in the VM use half-spaces in the same way?
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