Voynich Reconsidered on Medium (update):
a research philosophy
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the {8am} strategy revisited
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the Sukhotin algorithm
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the glyphs re-ordered?
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a research strategy
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them’s the breaks
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abjad languages
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On Medium:
La Divina Commedia
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Currier's dilemma
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"leaf words"
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On Medium;
what is a "word"
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mapping glyphs to letters
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wild cards
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Correction: on Medium:
Voynich Reconsidered: what is a “word”?
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Voynich Reconsidered: an alphabetic cipher?
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Voynich Reconsidered: scribes and languages
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Voynich Reconsidered: alternative transliterations
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Voynich Reconsidered: multiple alphabets?
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On Medium
Voynich Reconsidered: punctuation or junk? (1,412 words)
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Voynich Reconsidered: the “truncation effect” (1,345 words)
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Voynich Reconsidered: Zattera's separable "words" (1,441 words)
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Voynich Reconsidered: the Voynich alphabet (1,185 words)
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upper and lower case (1,209 words)
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the “truncation effect” (Part 2) (617 words)
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the author's name? (1,368 words)
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Turkish as precursor (1,512 words)
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Latin as precursor (963 words)
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Persian as precursor (1,922 words)
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filtering the languages (1,195 words)
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Arabic as precursor (883 words)
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manuscripts and printed documents (451 words)
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Voynich Reconsidered on Medium:
Bohemian as precursor
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"leaf words" revisited
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Welsh as precursor
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the Auchinleck manuscript
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the Ashmole 61 manuscript
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Arabic revisited
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the second author's name?
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the {M} conundrum
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Adriano Cappelli and the Exon Domesday
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repeated glyphs and repeated letters
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mappings of {8am}
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the third author's name?
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abbreviated Latin revisited
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Exon Domesday (Part 2)
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the blind men and the elephant
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A review of Voynich Reconsidered, in Fortean Times, July 2025:
"Voynich Reconsidered is an analytical tour de force. Even though the details can overwhelm, its good ordinary prose, splendid colour layouts and umpteen tables of correspondences are mesmerisingly focused. The studies of earlier attempts at decipherment, and new ones of the author’s own avenues, which seem promising, are cogently presented.
The product of five scribes working for some uber-inscrutable purpose, the Voynich Manuscript, cryptography’s holy mountain, is an outlier. At first appearing quite accessible with its dreamlike illustrations of plants, female bathers, peculiar apparatus, we get the gist – sort of. Then there’s the… they are words, aren’t they? The text looks decipherable… right? Unknown, for these apparently simple concepts are stress-tested to their limits with deciphering efforts.
Is the Voynich an alchemical or magical grimoire or a medical manual? Poem or pharmaceutical? Or some combination? Why do its “letters” and “words” look so much like bits of known languages that don’t stack up to complete phrases? The lack of punctuation doesn’t help one bit.
The author suggests some of it corresponds to particular ancient Balkan languages, that is, if indeed it really isn’t utter gibberish, a hoax; a possibility ruled out by Edwards with “some degree of confidence”. The only Voynich conference sponsored by an academic institution, in 2022, generally favoured the opinion that the Voynich text is meaningful.
The producer must have been wealthy, an aristocrat or high clerical official. Someone who may, Edwards admits, have had “a colossal sense of humour”."
Rating: 5 stars.
Today I recorded two episodes of a podcast with Francis Tapon of the WanderLearn channel (You are not allowed to view links.
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Voynich Reconsidered. Each episode is about 40 minutes. Francis will publish them in probably about a week's time.