Origin of the Shield Shape in the Solar Folio of the f85-86 Foldout

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The suprascript letter 'm' in the cipher manuscript is written on a larger area than the regular tiny suprascript and this explain the differences.

Or it is a completely different symbol, which would also explain the difference.

Here the attempt is not to interpret various Voynichese symbols as Latin letters. The effort is to investigate why two paragraphs in the very first folio You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. start with Latin letters (being prefixes of the two initial vords?) and how this could help identifying some cipher symbols as distinct letters, ligatures or abbreviations.

There are literally hundreds of characters on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. what resemble Latin letters. p and f do resemble embellished Latin P, e is indistinguishable from Latin c, o a and i look quite similar to their Latin counterparts. l looks exactly like contemporary XV century number 4. q d y won't look out of place in some types of medieval writing. r and s can be interpreted as some Latin letters. And it's possible to explain the difference in how they look by the tiny area that they take on the page, since the letters are quite small.

I'm not saying your idea is necessarily wrong. I simply don't see enough justification to conclude that it's very likely Beneventan, based just on the similarity of a few scattered shapes. If you find more, maybe it will look more convincing.