25-02-2020, 08:49 PM
(25-02-2020, 06:56 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Rene, I don't think I had seen these things before. One's general impression of the MS is that the system is followed rigorously, so why these deviations?
I agree that they look deliberately formed. But what are they? Just rare characters, like a text in Dutch might contain only one "x"?
Scribal slip?
And if so, influence from Voynichese or from his "native" writing system?
These are exactly the questions I am asking myself.
If the text were meaningless or some kind of a 'fake', I would not expect these things to happen, but that hardly qualifies as evidence. Just a hint or a suggestion.
W.r.t. the 'x' in Dutch, I guess that in a text of 160,000 characters we might expect a few more.
By the way, in my earlier post, the word 'mechanism' was intended in a very general manner. Just whatever was used to compose the text.