116v

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One of the reasons it's hard to work out anchiton/nichiton/mehiton is because there are three styles of "a" on this folio.

• Most of them are a slightly pointed "a" with a fairly straight stem and not quite joined at the bottom (oladab*s, portas, marix, *hia, maria). This is not a common form of "a", but it was not rare. I have found quite a few examples of the same shape.
  
• One of them looks like a Voynichese "a" (the third one in oladabas that I marked with an asterisk above). It does not look like the other "a" chars.
  
• The first "a" in "ahia" is drawn like the approach stroke in "anchiton" which is probably the best reason to consider that it might be anchiton, but it is an unusual way to write "a".
  
  

People often say there are 8 Voynichese glyphs on this folio (bottom left), but the last "a" in oladabas does not look like the other "a" chars on this folio and DOES look like many of the VMS main-text "a" glyphs. The "i" in "vix" is definitely not "i" like the other "i" chars on 116v. It is written exactly like EVA-i.

So, there are more than likely 10 Voynichese glyphs on this folio which is hopeful news for us if the person who wrote this had some idea what was going on in the rest of the text and maybe was involved in its creation.