(01-12-2025, 09:56 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I understand that the VM is special and we cannot just apply regular expectations to it. However, it is my impression that hand 1, starting from f1r, already had a good feeling for the script and managed to maintain if for many pages. So I don't think we must necessarily assume that (1) they never wrote Voynichese anywhere else and (2) their handwriting, including size and ductus, would change noticeably after a period of absence.
My personal opinion is that the scribe(s) is/are the authors and designers of the script. The large number of weird and unusual glyphs I see as on-the-spot adaptation of the script to express some new symbol, word or letter combination of the underlying text. So, the scribes here can and will experiment.
If this is the case, I see different hands more like an attempt to find a new aesthetic or practical form of the script by the very designers of the script. So more of "how about I try it with rounder shapes on this page", or maybe even adapting to the subject matter ("now we are talking about the royalty, let's make the script look a bit more kingly").