How to square handwriting variation?

[Skoove]

I also think it's possible that Voynichese was being developed on the go to some extent.

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Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen that forum yet. I have always believed that '4o' developed from or is largely related to the t/k gallows as well. 

I guess that a consistent development could account for the variation that we see even within VoyA under the same scribe. I'm not sure of the implications of this idea though, perhaps that just the glyphs were under a constant development or the underlying mechanism was under constant development? The latter is certainly more problematic to me since the amount of data that we could analyse for any 'consistent' set of text would possibly be reduced to single folios or quires.... 

On the other hand, if we could identify the evolution of Voynichese within the manuscript, we might get an insight into glyph allographs or glyphs that the scribe internally thought of as similar? 

Do you know if anyone has attempted something like this (not based on context similarity but on a supposed evolution throughout the manuscript)?