Re: VMs: MS408 Character Development

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

	Hi, Maurizio!

Maurizio M. Gavioli wrote:
> This 'two-levels articulation' (if the term is allowed outside of 
> linguistics) 'strokes into characters' and 'characters into script' is 
> highly characteristic of the _littera moderna_ (aka 'gothic writing' in 
> South Europe and probably 'black letters' in North Europe), i.e. the 
> writing which developed during XI-XII c. mainly in University 
> environments (Bologna, Paris, etc.) building on Irish-Briton -- on one 
> side-- and possibly Beneventan -- on the other side-- earlier developments.
>
> Making characters out of combinations of a very small repertory of 
> strokes is explicitly theorized by the later 'writing masters' (XIV-XV 
> c., but theory always comes after!) as a way to ease writing learning 
> and practicing. According to the 'common tradition' of the 
> early-Renaissance writing masters, the _littera moderna_ can be written 
> combining  only three basic strokes (and some modifications of them).

	I'm glad you brought this up!  D'Imperio noted how most of 
the characters may be formed from just /i/ and /e/ strokes. 
 She did not seem to be aware that this was a common 
practice.  So it was something that the inventor(s) of 
Voynich script must have made use of.

	Since you are here:  what do you have to say about the 
relation of 'humanist hand' to the Voynich script?

Dennis
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