Different languages isn't the problem, Mark...
It's the different scripts.
If the VMS is a cipher script, how do you compare that to a person's regular script? You can't match up the letters. People often write cipher characters in a way different from their regular handwriting. Backleaning letters were not common in the early 15th century. I have looked very hard to try to find them and have only found a few.
As I said in the previous message, the VMS "a" might not be the letter "a". The letters r a and i might be deliberately backleaning in order to create cipher characters. The scribes may not usually write like that, so you might not be able to compare the person's regular way of writing r and a and i to Voynichese r and a and i.
Look at folio You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. . Look at the differences in the way the VMS glyphs and the regular Latin characters are written. We do not know for sure that the Voynichese was written by the same person who wrote the other text. Just as the drawing may have been on the folio before the 116v text was written, the Voynichese may have been there too. He may have written around it. Or, since there are different scribes in the VMS, someone else may have written the Voynich characters. Imagine two people sitting side-by-side, one explaining Voynichese to the other. The VMS chars are not written like regular script. It IS possible that it was written by the same person, but look how DIFFERENT they are. How would you recognize the REGULAR writing of the scribes who wrote Voynichese text?
There's not much to go on. Maybe the shape of the o and the y can be compared but the y in the VMS is highly variable, even within the same scribe's handwriting.
I wouldn't say anything to discourage you from trying. I would try to find them and compare them myself if I thought there was a chance they were the same people...
but it's not as simple as comparing shapes in different languages. A letter "a" in French is usually written the same as a letter "a" in German (if it's the same scribe) but the "a" shape in Voynichese might be quite different, even if written by the same person. When I write Voynichese, it doesn't look anything like my regular handwriting, it looks like the text in the VMS. You would never guess what my handwriting looks like if you saw only my Voynichese writing.
It's the different scripts.
If the VMS is a cipher script, how do you compare that to a person's regular script? You can't match up the letters. People often write cipher characters in a way different from their regular handwriting. Backleaning letters were not common in the early 15th century. I have looked very hard to try to find them and have only found a few.
As I said in the previous message, the VMS "a" might not be the letter "a". The letters r a and i might be deliberately backleaning in order to create cipher characters. The scribes may not usually write like that, so you might not be able to compare the person's regular way of writing r and a and i to Voynichese r and a and i.
Look at folio You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. . Look at the differences in the way the VMS glyphs and the regular Latin characters are written. We do not know for sure that the Voynichese was written by the same person who wrote the other text. Just as the drawing may have been on the folio before the 116v text was written, the Voynichese may have been there too. He may have written around it. Or, since there are different scribes in the VMS, someone else may have written the Voynich characters. Imagine two people sitting side-by-side, one explaining Voynichese to the other. The VMS chars are not written like regular script. It IS possible that it was written by the same person, but look how DIFFERENT they are. How would you recognize the REGULAR writing of the scribes who wrote Voynichese text?
There's not much to go on. Maybe the shape of the o and the y can be compared but the y in the VMS is highly variable, even within the same scribe's handwriting.
I wouldn't say anything to discourage you from trying. I would try to find them and compare them myself if I thought there was a chance they were the same people...
but it's not as simple as comparing shapes in different languages. A letter "a" in French is usually written the same as a letter "a" in German (if it's the same scribe) but the "a" shape in Voynichese might be quite different, even if written by the same person. When I write Voynichese, it doesn't look anything like my regular handwriting, it looks like the text in the VMS. You would never guess what my handwriting looks like if you saw only my Voynichese writing.
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