11-05-2020, 02:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-05-2020, 02:02 PM by Mark Knowles.)
Clearly being written in different scripts makes things a lot harder, though I don't know how hard.
I hope to be able to obtain one enciphered letter with some common characters with Voynichese, so that might make comparison easier.
I have no knowledge or experience of graphology and would only hope that one could identify common strokes, curves, proportions or things of that kind between writing in different scripts.
Maybe it isn't realistic to compare scripts to identify with some degree of confidence whether we have a common scribe. It is worth me answering that question as if it is unrealistic then it makes my obtaining scans of such letters significantly lower priority given the probable difficulty involved.
The catalogue that I have seen of the Milan State Archives is not nearly as granular enough for it to be clear to me where to find these letters within the archive. Nevertheless I may be able to find some idea from sources I do have as to where they might be. Without me being quite specific I can't see the archivist scouring the archives for the letters and scanning and emailing them to me. I have never visited the Miian Archives and so don't know how they are arranged. Clearly the letter in the cipher script would be the best one to see and one I want to see anyway.
I wonder how realistic or unrealistic Lisa thinks it would be to determine if someone is the author despite the use of different scripts.
I hope to be able to obtain one enciphered letter with some common characters with Voynichese, so that might make comparison easier.
I have no knowledge or experience of graphology and would only hope that one could identify common strokes, curves, proportions or things of that kind between writing in different scripts.
Maybe it isn't realistic to compare scripts to identify with some degree of confidence whether we have a common scribe. It is worth me answering that question as if it is unrealistic then it makes my obtaining scans of such letters significantly lower priority given the probable difficulty involved.
The catalogue that I have seen of the Milan State Archives is not nearly as granular enough for it to be clear to me where to find these letters within the archive. Nevertheless I may be able to find some idea from sources I do have as to where they might be. Without me being quite specific I can't see the archivist scouring the archives for the letters and scanning and emailing them to me. I have never visited the Miian Archives and so don't know how they are arranged. Clearly the letter in the cipher script would be the best one to see and one I want to see anyway.
I wonder how realistic or unrealistic Lisa thinks it would be to determine if someone is the author despite the use of different scripts.