Single Leg Gallows

[davidma]

So  f p are being used where it is convenient, and not according to any rule or method, neither linguistic, grammatic, cypheric nor cryptographic. They cannot be separate letters in some language alphabet. The close similarity in the appearance of f p k t suggests that  f and  p might be nothing more than stylised variants of the more commoner double leg gallows. No particular purpose for them. Just a preference of the authors for writing them that way.

I think this could be right, however statistical analysis shows that f and p behave more like ligatures at paragraph start for other characters, if i remember correctly F stands for id (and potentially eid) and p for qd. The paper im referring is the "voynich symbols revisited" one, found here: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.