No text, but a visual code

[Antonio García Jiménez]

There is enough evidence to think that the glyphs in the script mean something on their own. In other words, they are symbols. An indication is, for example, the uncertainty in many cases about the spaces that separate the chains of glyphs. And another indication is folio f57v, where we see many glyphs alone that in the so-called normal text are accompanied by other glyphs forming chains that look like words.

I like to think of the script as the Lego game. Many pieces are interchangeable and can be put on and taken off in any order forming chains, but other pieces have to fit in a certain way and only in that way, such as the glyphs that always begin or end the chains.

Let's think about the benches. They are comfortable preceding the glyph [c], but other symbols are not. This makes sense if you think, as I do, that all glyphs that share this shape are the symbol of the Moon.