One of the glyphs I've been having some problems with is the <y>
or {9} symbol, and I'd like a little feedback from those who've
stared at these pages for a long time, if it's not too much
trouble.
At first I thought that space might be limited, or some other quirk of penmanship was responsible, but in almost all cases there is more than enough space to complete a curved downward stroke, and the pages these appear on are populated with {9} glyphs written correctly.
A sample of text yielded 224 of the variant {9} and a count of 1,514 of the standard {9}. Since I'm attempting to base my assumption of a glyph's existence primarily on the number of times it occurs, this is a significant enough sample that I cannot discount it as a possibility.
I think that q is a truncated version of 9. I have been spending a lot of my Voynich time on the layout of the stars section, and I think that the apparent cramping and distortion really reflects a conscious effort by the writer to keep the text within previously laid out boundaries. I discuss this in my revised Voynich pages, to be announced very shortly.