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Henri Auguste Omont, Paris Bibliothèque Nationale paleographer, was given
an early opportunity to examine the VMs following its discovery by
Wilfrid Voynich. Among Omont's personal documents was found a one
page vellum folio concerning Anglo-Saxon medicine (omontb, column 2, page 3-6 down). There are
certain flourishes, swirls of the scribe's quill, which I find of
interest. What caught my eye was their similarity to
the elaborate initial gallows glyph seen in VMs f42v. Wishful
thinking perhaps, but I wonder if Omont's 'fragment' may have corresponded to
his examination of the VMs?
The Omont Fragment:
Omont Fragment:
f42v:
Omont Collection at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven:
Regards,
Dana Scott
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