Re: That character that looks like a 4

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- "diane.cousteau" <Diane.cousteau@xxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

>      I was surprised to notice that the "4"
> character [...]  only begins to appear on folio
> 2r...right after that it is found several times in
> every paragraph....what kind of letter could be used
> this way? Moreover, could this mean there was a
> change in key after folio 2r? What character was
> previously used instead of 4?  Or maybe that the 4
> character signals a particular class of word which
> is not used before folio 2r?

I do not remember that this was observed before, or
if it was, I had forgotten. Perhaps f1r is based on a 
different language? I remember being surprised that
the first word on f1r is not found again in the whole
MS, even some character combinations in that word
are not found again.
The fact that the otherwise ubiquitous 4 is not found
on f1r, f1v (if that's correct - I did not check)
also reminds me of the -c8- combination which is
very frequent in language B, but doesn't appear at
all until half way through the zodiac pages (which
I have various reasons to believe are written in a 
'transition' language).

Cheers, Rene

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