Variation of glyph forms within single pages

[pfeaster]

I think I will not participate in these conversations going forward

That would definitely be our loss, and I hope I haven't been discourteous.

Let me try formulating a version of my hypothesis that's more consistent with yours, just to show that they're not mutually exclusive, and that being interested in the one doesn't have to mean rejecting the other.

If we accept as established fact that there were five scribes, each responsible for the parts of the VMS you've identified them with, those five scribes would each need to have learned to write Voynichese at some time and (except perhaps for the "inventor") from some source.  The hypothesis on the table is that this learning curve took place, at least in part, while the VMS was in process of being written (most notably f1r), and that it will have left evidence of itself in subtle changes in handwriting over time (as each scribe gained more experience).  So if, instead of just identifying a bifolio as Hand 1 or Hand 2 and being done with it, we were to study the range of variation within each of the various Hand 1 pages, what might we learn about the personal learning curve of Scribe 1 as a writer of Voynichese?  And what might we learn, separately, about Scribe 2?  Or the others?