A single hand, several handwritings

[-JKP-]

As for Currier's comments about the number of hands, I haven't read what he's written; I only know about it second-hand, mostly from the occasional comment on the forum. I didn't want my viewpoint about the handwriting to be influenced by his opinion and I STILL haven't gotten to it (it's been on my VMS things-to-do list for 10 years).

But I do have a question... does Currier mean hands in the main text (Voynichese) or hands in the VMS overall?

I would say there are at least 10 hands and possibly 11 or 12 (not counting the drawings and painting)...

1. 116v - at least one hand and possibly two
   
2. 17r - probably same hand as most of the text on 116v
   
3. ven mus mel - after studying these styles of writing more carefully, I now  think this MIGHT be a separate hand from 116v/17r
   
4. color annotations - separate hand from the others
   
5. labels on the zodiac figures is a separate hand, someone in a hurry and disrespectful of the drawings
   
6. quire numbers (older style late 14th-century, early 15th-century numerals)
   
7. folio numbers (transitional to early modern numerals in quite a different hand from the quire numbers)
   
8. Voynich main text - at least two hands and possibly one more though I haven't had time to look into any possible additional hands
   
9. column text on 1r (it seems to be different handwriting from all the others)
   
10. de Tepenecz
    

The ones I've looked into are 116v/17r, ven mus mel, color annotations, zodiac labels, quire numbers, folio numbers, column text, and VMS main text hand 1. I haven't had a chance to study main text hand 2 (I believe it is a separate hand) or to look closely to see if others exist.