17-06-2020, 02:13 PM
(17-06-2020, 11:46 AM)LisaFaginDavis wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I would like to have seen more than guesswork in his interpretation of gallows and bench-gallows. v101 "sees" seven gallows, EVA only four. Hannig identifies six, and identifies each of his six bench-gallows as a Dagesh.
I fully agree about the amount of guesswork, which is the basis for almost every Voynich solution or explanation, if not all of them.
As far as I can see, many would-be solvers are not all that aware about the number of assumptions they are making (tacit or hidden assumptions).
With respect to the gallows counts, this is quite a bit more complicated
If one considers characters that appear at least 100 times in the MS, then:
- Eva has 4 plain ones and 3 benched ones
- v101 has 6 plain ones and 3 benched ones
If one considers characters that appear at least 10 times, then:
- Eva has 4 plain ones and 13 benched ones
- v101 has 8 plain ones and 16 benched ones
If one counts all individual characters, then there are literally dozens of all types.
The paper uses the v101 font for character representation.