116v

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The text on 116v is almost readable and is conventional Latin characters, so it may not be related to Voynichese in any way, but something few people mention is the "caret" on the underside of the "o" and it might be important. It might be intended as a pronunciation symbol. If the person writing this learned Latin as a second language (as was the purview of scholars by the 15th century), it might account for the oddities in the text and possibly also for the mark attached to the "o".

Interesting symbols (including "o" with caret below) in the margin: BSB-Hss Clm 3712 You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

I'm familiar with this manuscript. It has text in several hands.

When I first saw it, I was wondering if the "margin" hand (there's more than one margin hand) that wrote those symbols was writing medieval 4 with 2 strokes instead of 1, but it does seem to be a separate symbol from 4. I don't know if I would call it a caret (it is certainly caret-shaped), as it is so large and long, it's closer to medieval 7 than a caret, but nevertheless appears to be used as a symbol in its own right.

I also noticed that one of the other scribes writes medieval 14 (the old style of 4) almost like EVA-k because he tends to lean back the 4 more than usual.