Michelle, I've found about 1,000 scripts that are reasonably similar to the handwriting on 116v. I created a mathematical scale to compare each individual character, along with spacing and slant.
There are no perfect matches, but there are half a dozen that are reasonably close and they date from the 1400s (I didn't worry about the date when I collected them, I simply looked for similar scripts).
The main text is definitely more challenging. If you choose one scribe, for example the scribe that penned the early folios, you will see a dozen different shapes for "a", a dozen different shapes for "o". They are still recognizable as a specific scribe in the context of whole words, and when taken together with slant, stroke order, spacing, and the thickness of the characters, but they do not have the consistency of top scribes. This makes it really challenging to determine if this is how they would write these characters if they were writing in a traditional alphabet. As Koen points out, they may be thinking something else when writing the character. We don't even know what these characters are. If this is a line-curve system, the letter that looks like an "a" might not be an "a", it might be c + i (in terms of shapes).
There's quite a bit of evidence that the scribes knew Latin conventions, examples show up in numerous places, but these hints may be examples of habit rather than the actual structure of the Voynichese shapes. Even though it's a difficult challenge, I'm still looking for Voynichese-like shapes, but it's a much longer-term project and not guaranteed to yield anything. But you never know. Maybe someone will get lucky. It happens.
There are no perfect matches, but there are half a dozen that are reasonably close and they date from the 1400s (I didn't worry about the date when I collected them, I simply looked for similar scripts).
The main text is definitely more challenging. If you choose one scribe, for example the scribe that penned the early folios, you will see a dozen different shapes for "a", a dozen different shapes for "o". They are still recognizable as a specific scribe in the context of whole words, and when taken together with slant, stroke order, spacing, and the thickness of the characters, but they do not have the consistency of top scribes. This makes it really challenging to determine if this is how they would write these characters if they were writing in a traditional alphabet. As Koen points out, they may be thinking something else when writing the character. We don't even know what these characters are. If this is a line-curve system, the letter that looks like an "a" might not be an "a", it might be c + i (in terms of shapes).
There's quite a bit of evidence that the scribes knew Latin conventions, examples show up in numerous places, but these hints may be examples of habit rather than the actual structure of the Voynichese shapes. Even though it's a difficult challenge, I'm still looking for Voynichese-like shapes, but it's a much longer-term project and not guaranteed to yield anything. But you never know. Maybe someone will get lucky. It happens.
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