Proposed Manuscript Chronology

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What's interesting about this is that, if accurate, Voynichese evolves from a more compact style to a more verbose one through the quires. chol → cheol → chedy doesn't strike me as a "simplification" when looking at glyph verbosity only.

Granted, this is speculative as we still don't know whether the thing encodes text at all,, how it could do it, whether we're dealing with a single plaintext (con?)language with consistent spelling, how much changing topics could influence, etcetera.

But IMO it's reasonable to expect spelling reforms to make the text less tedious to write down. I know if I were writing a conlang I would do that