nablator > 26-12-2018, 11:21 PM
(26-12-2018, 07:30 PM)Beatrice Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.So do you really think it is a piece of nonsense? If so, how would you explain the hammering-like pattern behind?Do you know the image that looks like Marilyn Monroe in the distance and Albert Einstein close-up? The overall impression of a clean, very readable script might suggest a humanist style, but the shapes of the glyphs mostly point the other way, to some gothic styles as JKP explained.
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(31-12-2018, 09:46 PM)Beatrice Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Sorry, JKP, just a question. What specific glyphs appear to be invented? Thanks.
Beatrice > 01-01-2019, 02:24 PM
(01-01-2019, 04:36 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(31-12-2018, 09:46 PM)Beatrice Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Sorry, JKP, just a question. What specific glyphs appear to be invented? Thanks.
Most of the VMS glyphs are based on Latin letters, numbers, ligatures, and abbreviations. However, with the exception of EVA-k (which is a common Latin abbreviation), the "gallows" characters do not follow common Latin glyph-shapes, nor are they common to other alphabets in any systematic way.
It's possible they are inventions based on the same general ideas as Greco-Roman scribal shapes, but they are not specifically identifiable. That's why I say Voynichese might include some invented shapes.
-JKP- > 01-01-2019, 03:48 PM
Quote:Beatrice: As far as I know, all of them appear in most mss. They may have different thickness, roundness or height but it seems to me the scribe invented nothing new, just wrote them differently.