Emma May Smith > 26-10-2016, 06:43 PM
Koen G > 26-10-2016, 07:11 PM
Anton > 26-10-2016, 07:13 PM
ThomasCoon > 26-10-2016, 08:37 PM
(26-10-2016, 06:43 PM)Emma May Smith Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The way which it is currently phrased suggests that we have, positively, found some of the characters in some documents. We have no idea if this is true as perceived similarities in shape may be misleading.
Koen G > 26-10-2016, 09:16 PM
-JKP- > 26-10-2016, 09:54 PM
(26-10-2016, 11:05 AM)Diane Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I agree "has not been found" is fair. I wonder if anyone has ever tried to do a comprehensive survey of known scripts.
Perhaps someone on the old mailing list did - but I've seen no mention of it.
I expect Stolfi looked at some Asian scripts, and recently Thomas Spande introduced the question of Armenian script and language. The Friedmans invited a couple of Egyptologists, I gather. I've mentioned Sabaic minuscule and Greco-Bactrian..
It would be an interesting research project. And in this, I keep thinking of a manuscript which was mentioned by Okasha el Daly. It is said to have a large number of scripts recorded in it, each with their equivalent sound in Arabic. It is said to be in the Topkapi serai, so if anyone feels like visiting during their hols...
VViews > 26-10-2016, 10:30 PM
ThomasCoon > 26-10-2016, 10:33 PM
Emma May Smith > 26-10-2016, 10:40 PM
(26-10-2016, 10:30 PM)VViews Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view."no other document written in Voynichese script has been found up to date" ?
I'd agree with that one.
Also I know I'm going off topic here, but in response to the above, if we did find a single manuscript, pre-1400's, which was a collection of scripts like JKP and Diane suggest, in which all Voynich glyphs were found, but across several scripts... I think that would be highly interesting.
The Voynich script didn't happen out of thin air. The Voynich author may have owned such a book which offered him a collection of scripts from which to cherry-pick glyphs to create his Voynichese.
Anton > 26-10-2016, 10:47 PM