About the scribes

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It would be better to pay attention specifically to the differences between Herbal A, Herbal B, and balneology, rather than to the handwriting, which does not provide us with any information on its own (except for the assumption that the differences in the "languages" are not algorithmic but lexical).

Handwriting does provide information. We can try to match the calligraphy with regional scripts. Are lines written left to right, or right to left? Are glyphs written sequentially? Slips of the pen can potentially give us insights on the scribe, even if accidental and due to fatigue.

It's arguably subjective, speculative, and prone to confirmation bias, but handwriting analysis is not entirely useless at all.

I also had thoughts of comparing the handwritings from pages You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. with other manuscripts, just to see if the author of the Voinich manuscript had any other works. Of course, we could try to find a key in these manuscripts or something like that, but... this is even more useless in the context of decryption (well, we'll get some information about the author, but it won't help us decipher the text. Although, it would be possible to check the statistics, as the author, like most people, will probably have some similarities between the texts he has written).