No text, but a visual code

[Antonio García Jiménez]

Glyph transliteration systems are useful for compiling statistics, but they are also a trap because they distance us from the materiality of the manuscript, from the genuine form of the glyphs. In the Voynich script, there are more than one hundred rare or special characters that are not usually taken into account.

 An example of what I'm saying is sh 

  I have to type the characters (sh) to get the glyph, but what appears is a pale reflection of reality. The transliteration has only taken into account one of the various ways in which this glyph appears with the plume above it. In reality, there can be up to five ways in which that plume appears.

   Since I believe the writing system is actually a visual system invented by the authors of the Voynich Manuscripts, this graphic system explains both this and many other unusual or special symbols we see. It's an attempt to represent celestial objects and their movements in the sky with symbols.

   In the case of sh, the aim is to differentiate it from its counterpart ch, and what it can represent is the movement of the moon, hence the plume changes position and runs along the bench.