[Article] Voynich Paleography article

[ReneZ]

For me, this new paper is an important improvement over the results of Currier, but I gather it is not intended to be the final word.

I found it interesting to make the comparison. Currier's hands 1 and 2 are well known, but he also used 3,4,5 and X,Y but only in very few cases. One significant difference is that Currier misses many pages, while Lisa Fagin Davis addresses all.

Hand 1 (Lisa's) is the most prolific one in terms of pages - scribe 1 did half of them - but probably not in terms of words.

Two points that struck me (apart from the ones already mentioned):

- Folio 58 (both sides) that has text with a few marginal stars is in the same hand as the last quire, which is also text with marginal stars

- the folios 93, 94, 95, 96 are split between two scribes, in the same way by Currier and by Lisa, even though the numbers used are not the same. Currier had 4 and 5, Lisa 1 and 3.