Which other manuscript contain the most Voynichese glyphs?

[geoffreycaveney]

Yes, when y is used at the beginnings of words, it is con, com and its homonyms (and it can also stand alone for these).

• Some scribes used y with almost equal frequency beginning and end.
  
• Some scribes only used it at the end.
  
• Some used it often at the end and sometimes at the beginning (the same general pattern as the VMS position of the glyph).
  
• Some scribes used it at the end and used the reverse-c (which is also in the VMS) at the beginning.
  

I have hundreds of examples of most of these, although the reverse-c was becoming less common by the early 15th century.

Thank you for confirming all of this information, JKP.

For the record, in my Yorkist English theory (see the Middle English theory thread for 100 posts worth of details) I read this character (EVA [y] or Currier [9]) as "K", which can represent "k", "hard c", "hard g", "gh", "ng", or "-ing". I believe that its use to mean "cum", "com-", "con-", etc., was the inspiration for this use of the character. It is used so frequently, according to my theory, because "K" is the final letter of "YORK". I also note that according to my theory, words can be written either forwards or backwards, so this will scramble the statistical frequency of the use of such a character at the "beginning" or "end" of words. The motivation would have been to make words appear with this "K" character in word-final position as often as possible, in order to match the word-final "K" in "YORK".

Geoffrey