09-10-2025, 03:37 PM
By the way, since we are looking at f47r, consider the very first glyph on the page.
The arm and hook are those of a p. But it has two legs. More precisely, one and a half. What is it?
If it is original, it would be either a one-of-a-kind weirdo, or a p with an extra leg added as some bizarre form of decoration.
But I would now say "neither". That was originally a simple p. On round Rt1 the loops, arm, and hook were retraced (a bit clumsily). On that occasion the Retracer (who presumably did not know the Voynichese alphabet) added the left half-leg by mistake, perhaps by confusion with the two-legged gallows...
All the best, --jorge
The arm and hook are those of a p. But it has two legs. More precisely, one and a half. What is it?
If it is original, it would be either a one-of-a-kind weirdo, or a p with an extra leg added as some bizarre form of decoration.
But I would now say "neither". That was originally a simple p. On round Rt1 the loops, arm, and hook were retraced (a bit clumsily). On that occasion the Retracer (who presumably did not know the Voynichese alphabet) added the left half-leg by mistake, perhaps by confusion with the two-legged gallows...
All the best, --jorge