Mark Knowles' theories of pharma and other labels

[ReneZ]

I have attached an image showing shared cipher symbols that I have seen.

Mark, you list 12 characters, but the combined character sets of all existing transliteration systems for the Voynich MS list close to 300 different characters. Tranchedino undoubtedly has even more. The overlap of only 12 can be considered fairly strong counter-evidence against your proposed correspondence.

Almost all of the characters you listed are extremely rare in the Voynich MS. Given that the MS has of the order of 160,000 symbols, then a character that appears fewer than 16 times appears only once every 10,000 characters. In the Voynich MS only at most 30 characters exceed that limit.

The ch with a dot above was recognised by GC five times in the MS. That is once every 32,000 characters. One can check them in the text. They appear here: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. line 1 You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. line 1 You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. line 8 You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. line 23 You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. line 3

One can doubt in some cases if the dot is an intentional pen stroke, and in some cases one can see a faded loop of Sh as well.