This is one of the many examples in the Voynich MS where we cannot answer a question, not because we cannot find an explanation, but we can find numerous explanations and we have no way to decide which one is correct.
A couple of things about this:
- they look like pencil, but this cannot be decided from the scans. A visual inspection would give more certainty.
- undoubtedly, these are from a (much) later owner
So when would these have been added?
I think that this could be anywhere from Kircher to Kraus.
This is of course where the speculation comes in.
There are a lot of pencilled notes (mostly numbers) on the Kircher correspondence. These were most probably added by later Jesuits.
Voynich is on record to have made notes on his manuscripts. Whether the handwriting could be his is very hard to say due to the tiny sample of individual characters. They do not look to me to be by Anne Nill or ELV.
Kraus and Lehmann-Haupt both pencilled on the inside cover.
Plenty of candidates...
A couple of things about this:
- they look like pencil, but this cannot be decided from the scans. A visual inspection would give more certainty.
- undoubtedly, these are from a (much) later owner
So when would these have been added?
I think that this could be anywhere from Kircher to Kraus.
This is of course where the speculation comes in.
There are a lot of pencilled notes (mostly numbers) on the Kircher correspondence. These were most probably added by later Jesuits.
Voynich is on record to have made notes on his manuscripts. Whether the handwriting could be his is very hard to say due to the tiny sample of individual characters. They do not look to me to be by Anne Nill or ELV.
Kraus and Lehmann-Haupt both pencilled on the inside cover.
Plenty of candidates...
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