29-01-2020, 01:17 AM
I’ve never written with a quill pen or done calligraphy before; I’m just going by what you guys (especially JKP) have taught me here. It looks to me like the round Voynichese glyphs — the ones that involve pushing the writing utensil in all directions, particularly [o] and [d], were usually drawn in one stroke. Based on what you’re saying in this thread, this is remarkable, as drawing a full circle or figure 8 in one stroke would seem to violate the principles of good quill nib penmanship. And yet, the VMS is not rife with ink splotches and evidence of quill splitting. What might this say about either the writer, and/or the writing utensil used? Might either of these have been different from a typical medieval European manuscript?