Re: belated replies: [was VMs: Evita, EVA, and transcriptions.]

["Barbara Barrett" <barbarabarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

Barbara blithers;
My thanks for going to the trouble to find the gallows in question for me.

The "tail" of the gallows is consistent with a quill lift after pressure by
a right handed person (this helps Nick's question too - the writer was
definitely right handed a left handed person would have "ticked" in the
opposite direction).

None of the examples given could have been made other than by a downward
line and a lift - there are no pen stops or lifts before the final lift.

I've compared the Voynich GIF and Voynich PDF CD ROMs to the 4-colour repo
and I can say with great confidence that any apparent "c" endings on gallows
are visual artifacts: at least on f78r they are anyway ;-)

Barbara

John Jotted;
> In response to your response on Jon's note:
>
> On the first line of f78r, most of the gallows have a slight 'leg'
> showing - some more than others. It looks like a small 'c' or even a tiny
> 'L'
> on the bottom of the gallows. It often does look like the 'legs' were
drawn
> first and then the gallows attached to them (but, it is very difficult to
> really be sure).
>
> A little clearer - perhaps is on the 15th line, 4th gallow. Again, these
> may be caused by some kind of artifact - but they are consistent enough
> through
> almost all gallows to have been noted a number of times over the years by
> different
> people.


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