RE: Which other manuscript contain the most Voynichese glyphs?
-JKP- > 03-07-2018, 01:05 AM
Helmut, I agree with you, I also suspect the gallows were invented, out of shapes that were familiar in scribal traditions.
But there are also embellished gallows in the VMS, with long horizontal bars, loops, dots... I've seen litterae elongatae in many kinds of manuscripts but always leaned toward the legal manuscripts as their possible inspiration and thus didn't pay as much attention when I saw them in other kinds of documents. I didn't build a mental map of where litterae elongatae occur outside of the legal realm, which I now regret because I'll have to go back over old ground. From what you've mentioned, it seems less likely that they would be seen outside of closed circles.
I've sampled quite a few litterae elongatae, but it would take time to revisit them and make some sense of them.
I remember Barb Lat 525 had a number of them on the first lines but I can't remember what it was about (maybe ecclesiastical). Also Barb Lat 2724, but I can't remember what that was about either (I used to be able to keep all this in my head, but after a few years, it starts to blur together). Reg Lat 1480 had some. Paladii Ruilii...
I remember CLM 29586 has many, but maybe it's a legal document, I can't remember. I can't take time to look at the original to check during the workday.
Those are the only ones I can remember off the top of my head. Maybe it's enough to get some sense of where litterae elongatae show up most often in other kinds of manuscripts.