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previous research on Arabic and the Voynich ms?

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19-09-2020, 02:45 AM (This post was last modified: 19-09-2020, 02:46 AM by -JKP-.)
The handwriting is left to right. That doesn't mean the text is to be read in the same direction.

If there was a draft copy made before the current copy, then it's not that hard to copy right-to-left words in the right-to-left direction.


ecnef eht no tas tac eht

Pretend that is Hebrew rather than English. If a scribe were asked to copy that in the reverse direction, I think most of them could do it.
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