These are great news! Many thanks to Lisa, Koen and David!
In addition to what JKP wrote, I would be curious to know Lisa's views about the several, but short, Voynch marginalia.
Some of them (f17r, f66r, f116v) appear together with Voynichese words. Could they date to the same time-frame as the main text? Is there any hope of extracting some additional information from them? (e.g. about where/when they might have been written, or who might have used a similar script)
I would also love to know what she thinks of the other sets of marginalia, e.g. month names and quire numbers.
And what about the single characters / short words that could be colour annotations (e.g. f1v, 7fr)? What do they tell us?
On a different subject, Lisa recently mentioned that she is working with Prof. Claire Bowern, a linguist at Yale. I was really excited to hear that! Though I guess that this project is in its early stage, is there anything that can be shared about it? How do linguistic and palaeographic expertise typically come together in research work?
I think it would be wonderful if an art historian could join the current efforts at Yale. We all are fascinated by the illustrations in the manuscript, but as far as I know neither the manuscript as a whole, nor specific sections like Quire 13 or the zodiac, have been the subject of formal art-history publications. Will this change in the near future?
In addition to what JKP wrote, I would be curious to know Lisa's views about the several, but short, Voynch marginalia.
Some of them (f17r, f66r, f116v) appear together with Voynichese words. Could they date to the same time-frame as the main text? Is there any hope of extracting some additional information from them? (e.g. about where/when they might have been written, or who might have used a similar script)
I would also love to know what she thinks of the other sets of marginalia, e.g. month names and quire numbers.
And what about the single characters / short words that could be colour annotations (e.g. f1v, 7fr)? What do they tell us?
On a different subject, Lisa recently mentioned that she is working with Prof. Claire Bowern, a linguist at Yale. I was really excited to hear that! Though I guess that this project is in its early stage, is there anything that can be shared about it? How do linguistic and palaeographic expertise typically come together in research work?
I think it would be wonderful if an art historian could join the current efforts at Yale. We all are fascinated by the illustrations in the manuscript, but as far as I know neither the manuscript as a whole, nor specific sections like Quire 13 or the zodiac, have been the subject of formal art-history publications. Will this change in the near future?
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