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[Mark Knowles]

Again, Mark, it's fine to have criticism but then don't replace it with something worse. Like JKP says, the first glyph could perfectly be an "i" with a serif, as they were commonly written, but it simply lacks the horizontal stroke of a "4", medieval or not.

I don't regard that as something worse, it seems to me that what you suggest is something worse.

To quote Nick Pelling on page 173 of his book "The Curse of the Voynich":

"When viewing You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. under a magnifying glass, the shape at the centre of the flower clearly seems to read '4175', with two short arcs beneath it."

Now Nick may have changed his opinion on it, I don't know. Nevertheless it is obviously not an opinion of one.

I cannot see a central bar in the supposed H in IHS.

Ultimately, to reiterate, the only way to arrive at a better determination is to have a higher quality scan.