Koen, as you pointed out, the face of the marginalia figure on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. somewhat resembles the ones on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. also by scribal hand 1. It's hard to associate the goat on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. with a hand as we only have a similar animal by hand 4. The nymph on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. looks more evolved but may have been added later? I have expressed my opinion that all drawings were made by the same person. However I find it hard to argue why scribal hand 1 would write very clear and orderly 'Voynichese' but such clumsy ambiguous Latin characters. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. does appear to be clearer in this regard, the Latin chars get worse in later marginalia.
But why did the 1 of 17 cut into the flower? Did the person writing the page numbers overlook the drawing? Strangely the bottom of the 1 intersects with the thickest and most distinct line of the drawing. I think the 365nm UV image gives the best details with fewest background noise.
Regarding the 'cz' ligature - wouldn't the macron indicate that this is not the usual 'tz' but some missing characters in between?But what can you insert between t and z? 'um' comes to my mind. '-tumz' -> -tums is a valid suffix in German. Not that 'lutums' makes any more sense. I remain highly skeptical that any of these marginalia make sense at all.
But why did the 1 of 17 cut into the flower? Did the person writing the page numbers overlook the drawing? Strangely the bottom of the 1 intersects with the thickest and most distinct line of the drawing. I think the 365nm UV image gives the best details with fewest background noise.
Regarding the 'cz' ligature - wouldn't the macron indicate that this is not the usual 'tz' but some missing characters in between?But what can you insert between t and z? 'um' comes to my mind. '-tumz' -> -tums is a valid suffix in German. Not that 'lutums' makes any more sense. I remain highly skeptical that any of these marginalia make sense at all.