Choice of glyphs

[ReneZ]

Mark, as long as you keep ignoring what other people have been telling you over the space of more than a year now, related to diplomatic ciphers and the Voynich MS, you are not going to make any progress and you will remain a prisoner within the confines of your theory.

The essence of what you write is wrong and can easily be demonstrated to be wrong:
1) arbitrary characters are not a property of diplomatic ciphers alone.
2) the Voynich MS glyph set is not arbitrary like cipher alphabets

I attach two pieces of very well known cipher text that are not diplomatic ciphers, either in their application (they appear in technical / philosophical manuscripts) or in their definition (they are mono-alphabetic). The first is from MS Pal.Germ.597, German, dated to 1426. The second is from MS BSB Cod.Icon 242, Italian, dated to 1420-1430 (Fontana's Bellicorum Instrumentorum).

   

   

Now compare this with the Voynich MS writing which is allows almost fluent, almost cursive writing: