Elephant in the Room Solution Considerations

[Koen G]

@ nablator, That's a very helpful thread. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I am also now inclined to see it as commonly done in medieval texts, but in the VM (and in other books) may have its own meaning

I agree with this part, and lately I've found this the most useful way of thinking about most aspects of the manuscript. More often than not, something the Voynich scribes or artists do has clear parallels in medieval customs, but the Voynich does its own thing with it. This is very frequent in discussions of the imagery, but also things like script and layout.

Both sides of that coin are worth looking out for. How does it depend on traditional formats, and how does it change them?