Scribes and elaborate gallows

[LisaFaginDavis]

I have quite a lot of notes about this question. All of the scribes use these (what seem to be) ligatures, in similar ways, although as Koen notes, Scribe 1 has a largest variety. 

Although we won't really know until/unless we can read the text, I did note in my Voynich Conference lecture my thoughts about these ligatures, that they may perhaps be parsed by considering the number of loops and the number of legs. See p. 9, section 5.2 here:

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I never really followed up on this idea, in part because it is completely speculative...