Digit 5 as "y" with tilde, and spurious "quire" mark on f57v
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(18-09-2025, 10:55 PM)Bluetoes101 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.These (maybe/sort of) exist in the VM ,F69v, one of the few exceptions to "there is no punctuation"

Interesting, I forgot about those!

However, since those are the only two occurrences of  y-macron in the book, it is unlikely that they stand for digit "5" or letter "g".  I would guess that they are ad-hoc abbreviations for some word that starts with y.  Like we could write "V." for "Voynichese" in a post, without even defining it.

All the best, --jorge
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RE: Digit 5 as "y" with tilde, and spurious "quire" mark on f57v - by Jorge_Stolfi - 19-09-2025, 01:38 AM

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