VMs: Re: Qoteedy nine

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

GC wrote:
> 
> What I find most interesting is that the vast majority of Voynich
> glyphs are represented in Latin shorthand and English systems of
> shorthand notation.  The numerous Latin abbreviations as
> catalogued in D'Imperio are holdovers from Tironian notes, and
> fairly universal.  The additional symbols are Cantabridgian, or at
> least this is the only current source I've discovered for their
> documentation.  I'd love to find that they were more universal,
> but the nature of early shorthand systems appears to be that they
> were rather localized in their creation and implementation. 

	I had thought that the origins of the VMs script had 
been settled:

1)  Latin abbreviations and early Arabic numerals, from
D'Imperio
as you noted;

2)  Late 15th Renaissance cipher symbols, like those
listed
by Trandechino; and 

3)  The gallows embellishments seen in a few medieval
Ms.

	I must confess that I haven't followed the shorthand
discussion.  What does shorthand add/detract from my
list above?

Dennis
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