Gallows Island

[ReneZ]

Another possibility is based on an important fact which is entirely obvious but hardly ever mentioned.

If the Voynich MS text is the rendition of some source text, then this source text would be handwritten. Not printed. This means that the source text may well have had some variant shapes only on top lines of paragraphs due to the extra space, and the f and p are the result of that.

One can apply this also to line starts and line ends....