Different behaviours in line-final words...?

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This "source document" hypothesis is shaky: it leads us to the conclusion that the source document had the same drawings. Otherwise, it's not clear why, preserving the supposed margin of the source document in certain places, the scribe did not take the trouble to preserve it in other places. E.g. in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. the supposed "source document" receives no respect. Why would it be respected e.g. in the first paragraph of f22v?

Actually, what I argued in 2006 (in Curse) was that it seemed very probable to me that the maker of the Voynich Manuscript worked hard to retain the page layout used in the original source document(s), even though the text / pictures had (almost certainly) all been changed / warped / mutated / adapted / whatever in the process. I don't currently believe the original drawings were the same as what we see, not at all: but I do strongly suspect that the overall layout stayed basically the same.

As to your examples of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and f22v: until such time as we have the original source document(s) to hand, how can we tell what the original margin was or wasn't in any given case? Both these pages may well turn out to have retained the original layout just fine. :-)