16-07-2026, 11:09 AM
(16-07-2026, 10:54 AM)Pointless.. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.While they could have hired an outside illustrator, the final artwork would make that an impressive choiceIf you compare the drawings of Herbal A and Herbal B, you can see differences in the style of the plant drawings, the coloring (which is sometimes more bold than necessary in Herbal B), and sometimes the size (which may be due to the scribe's small handwriting. He drew large plants to fill the page).
Apparently, the scribes were also artists.
(16-07-2026, 10:54 AM)Pointless.. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.That said, I can certainly agree that the system as a whole does not match any known scriptIf desired, you can find similar glyphs of Latin letters in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. This doesn't say much about the Voynichese symbols, but it does suggest that the author may have been familiar with Latin.
A special characteristic of VMS writing is that it is written quite quickly (if you write with a pen). All letters are written in a few strokes. Of course, you can say that Latin is similarly easy to write, but Voynichese still wins in comparison

