Voynich-like Symbols in a Florentine Manuscript

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However, two important questions remain open. Some special characters appear as black squares in the printed transcription, and it is not yet clear whether the unusual sign table on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. represents a practical application of the preceding rules or something independent.

The black squares are pilcrows, starts of paragraphs.

In particular, the rules governing the positioning of signs relative to the lines need to be understood and reconstructed more precisely.

Well, it's not a new speculation that some ancestor of stenography "artis velociter scribere" (the art of writing quickly) might be related to Voynichese, but there are good reasons why it is not likely: Voynichese has too few common glyphs and they are too predictable to be a compressed form of writing.