I would like to ask about these signs of use.
From what I know, the most worn page of the Voynich is f1r, which makes sense just from handling/opening the book.
Are there other pages within the Voynich that show more wear than others?
If the book was owned by someone who understood the text and used it, I might expect certain inner pages to be more worn out than others, especially around the edges where fingers may have held it open : regularly used "recipes", perhaps, or regularly consulted periods of the zodiac section, or even significant spiritual/metaphysical passages a reader may have lingered over.
You can check this with any book you've really read and used: some pages show more wear than others, and this is even visible from the edges when the book is closed.
If You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is the only page that shows a lot of wear, and the rest shows evenly low/no levels of wear, this would on the contrary suggest later owners who did not understand the text, or did not use the book.
Of course, if the edges have been trimmed, this would perhaps cancel out the effects I have just mentioned.
From what I know, the most worn page of the Voynich is f1r, which makes sense just from handling/opening the book.
Are there other pages within the Voynich that show more wear than others?
If the book was owned by someone who understood the text and used it, I might expect certain inner pages to be more worn out than others, especially around the edges where fingers may have held it open : regularly used "recipes", perhaps, or regularly consulted periods of the zodiac section, or even significant spiritual/metaphysical passages a reader may have lingered over.
You can check this with any book you've really read and used: some pages show more wear than others, and this is even visible from the edges when the book is closed.
If You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is the only page that shows a lot of wear, and the rest shows evenly low/no levels of wear, this would on the contrary suggest later owners who did not understand the text, or did not use the book.
Of course, if the edges have been trimmed, this would perhaps cancel out the effects I have just mentioned.