10-10-2023, 05:30 PM
That's a very clear example!
Do you think this is the same for all scribes?
I'm also wondering now.. would scribes in regular manuscripts write the numeral 8 in the same 2-stroke fashion? If c+loop is a common method, this probably means that it's convenient to write 8 like this with a quill on parchment (which does not behave like pen on paper). However, if it turns out that 8 was rarely written like this, the implication would be that all Voynich scribes (re)-learned how to write it in a way that was more consistent with the apparent philosophy behind the glyph set.
Do you think this is the same for all scribes?
I'm also wondering now.. would scribes in regular manuscripts write the numeral 8 in the same 2-stroke fashion? If c+loop is a common method, this probably means that it's convenient to write 8 like this with a quill on parchment (which does not behave like pen on paper). However, if it turns out that 8 was rarely written like this, the implication would be that all Voynich scribes (re)-learned how to write it in a way that was more consistent with the apparent philosophy behind the glyph set.