30-05-2022, 08:14 PM
(29-05-2022, 01:52 PM)nickpelling wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.We do have specific instances of sequentially repeating pairs, most notably 'or' on the first two lines of f15v. That suggests a verbose cipher mechanism is in play, enciphering Roman numbers e.g. iii or xxx. Or perhaps, as Cicco Simonetta's rules would imply, a writer with a thing for eggs. :-)
The problem I raised isn't about repeated letters in the plaintext. It's about the extreme rarity of repeated script glyphs that end a (hypothetical) verbose pair as well as stand alone.

