f115r / Hand @ or Hand 3 ?

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"How Many Glyphs and How Many Scribes? Digital Paleography and the Voynich Manuscript"

Why twelve? The dark ink continues for a further five lines.

I think I can explain your number twelve, and I think I can see a mistake in the paper.

The paper has "and on folio 115 recto, where Scribe 2 writes the first twelve lines before Scribe 3 takes over".

But You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. definitely has 17 lines in the dark ink. It is You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that has 12 lines of dark ink. It seems that perhaps you were mistaking You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. for f105r.

Does that then mean that it is in fact You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that has the top lines in a different hand?

That would make more sense because You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. seems possibly to have been the first page for quire 20. It is the only page within the quire that has a top margin, and also a strange starting doodle. The star is above the text not alongside. It might have been a more logical place for hand 2 to give hand 3 some starting council.