29-12-2024, 05:56 PM
I have become more and more inclined to believe that a space, though not intended to deceive, must not necessarily be regarded as a mark of division between two words or concepts.
This observation that Brigadier John Tiltman made in his report to Friedman in 1951 has great value. It casts a suspicion that has since been present in everyone who has scrutinized the Voynich script. It is easy to verify that there are strings of consecutive glyphs that can be separated or together forming a single chain. There doesn't seem to be a problem, so the spaces seem optional. Added to this is the fact that sometimes it is not known when one string ends and another begins as the spaces between them are not well delimited.
For me these characteristics have to do with the method of generating the glyph strings, which is a mechanical method, whether wheels with inscribed glyphs or superimposed discs like those of medieval astronomical Volvelles. It is as if the authors could transfer the strings of glyphs to the parchment as a continuum or space them so that they look like words of a language.
This observation that Brigadier John Tiltman made in his report to Friedman in 1951 has great value. It casts a suspicion that has since been present in everyone who has scrutinized the Voynich script. It is easy to verify that there are strings of consecutive glyphs that can be separated or together forming a single chain. There doesn't seem to be a problem, so the spaces seem optional. Added to this is the fact that sometimes it is not known when one string ends and another begins as the spaces between them are not well delimited.
For me these characteristics have to do with the method of generating the glyph strings, which is a mechanical method, whether wheels with inscribed glyphs or superimposed discs like those of medieval astronomical Volvelles. It is as if the authors could transfer the strings of glyphs to the parchment as a continuum or space them so that they look like words of a language.