Strong evidence of a structured four-phase system in the Voynich Manuscript

[anyasophira]

 That makes me feel loads better lol.

Welcome to the forum!
Just a heads up, I've done some mild statistics work before and I still don't know what's happening in this thread...

[Pepper]

No worries!

When we shuffle the text, the pattern disappears. But when we analyze the original manuscript, the pattern re-emerges clearly. This suggests that the thematic structure follows an internal logic that withstands the physical disorder of the folios. So even if the current folio order is not original, the cyclical thematic structure still emerges robustly.

Thank you. I'm not clear on the distinction between "shuffling the text" and shuffling the folios. Does the former mean rearranging the text within each folio?