Corrections in the VMS

[-JKP-]

I refer to "r " not as to Latin "r", but as to EVA "r".

(BTW, I adopted the practice of writing EVA characters in italic in this forum, precisely to distinguish from Latin).

So what I mean is that there is EVA "r", but the character that we are discussing is not meant to be EVA r. It is the arc symbol (it is in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. only, and does not have any special designation, only code &163) with the tail modifier appended, thus resulting in extended EVA &135.

I don't think the character mapped to Extended EVA 135 is a native Voynichese character (which might be why it wasn't included in the original EVA set). It's an isolate, tacked on to the beginnings and endings of lines in small discreet numbers (e.g., beginning of lines in Folio 10r and end of a line in Folio 19r). The character on Folio 10r doesn't look like the same handwriting or pen-stroke pressures (light-heavy-light) found in the main VMS.

I'm pretty sure it's another person's attempt at drawing the backward-leaning r with a tail (EVA r or R). I suppose it could be argued that there was no attempt to duplicate a VMS letter (even though the "o" was duplicated), that the writer made up a new letter, but then you have to wonder what would motivate someone to add something so discreetly and yet make it stand out by giving it a shape that is distinct from other glyphs.