05-04-2020, 07:44 PM
(05-04-2020, 07:08 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Looking at the pictures is not enough, Mark.
If you only look at the pictures, then you don't know if you are looking at a letter, a ligature, or an abbreviation. You have to understand the distinctions between these in order to know if a shape is similar to one in the VMS and that means reading the explanation that goes with the diagram.
Also, if you don't know how to read the text, then you don't know whether the shape you found in a manuscripts is a related shape or if the similarity is a coincidence.
I disagree. I think it is all about how the glyphs look. I don't think it matters if one is looking at a letter, a ligature, or an abbreviation. I think this question is all about visual appearance and I think it has to be about that. If you can find characters that look the same as those in the Voynich then great otherwise its largely hot air.