An explanation of the Voynich Manuscript text

[DonaldFisk]

If there's anything else you think I'm unaware of, please let me know.

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. describes vertical patterns for the VMS. Emma May Smith has described an example of this kind You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. The word [otaiin] is used on page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. six times. Each time as either the third or second to last word in the line. Another example for this vertical pattern is the usage of [chor] on page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

Different sides of the same folio often lie in different clusters, so different word frequencies isn't a problem.

On every page something new is happening. All you have to do is to search for a rarely used glyph combinations. You will always find hard to explain patterns for them. See for instance the usage of [ll] on page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

The glyph sequence [on] only exists 5 times within the VMS. But three of this words occur on page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. 

Normally the [m]-glyph is used as last glyph in a line. But not on page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. On this page even two paragraph initial words end with [m].

These look like coincidences to me.   You have about 240 pages of text.   Suppose for the sake of argument the words are random.   Then you'll find places where you get the same word repeated several times, or in the same line position, or similar words close together.   But (since it's random) claiming significance in this is like seeing faces in clouds, or hearing voices in static.    People are predisposed to spotting patterns.

There are indeed some real patterns, which I didn't know about, and haven't accounted for.   -y qo- suggests that there might be glyph pairs which co-occur more or less often than chance.   My state transition model can handle that.   The Vogt results are more problematic.

That it is possible to describe the words in the VMS using your state transition table is indeed an interesting observation. But by describing the words in the VMS you didn't have described the manuscript. Anyway, it is one thing to describe something and another to give a efficient method to reproduce it.

So, not entirely negative.

What I hope is that my analysis is useful, even for those who don't accept my conclusions, which may still change when I see evidence that they should.

Having worked on this for about three months, I'm going to take a break.   I'll return to it later though, as there's a lot of work still to be done.   During the work on the Voynich Manuscript, I've been writing and testing various statistical and text-processing algorithms, which are generally useful.   I have other things to do now, such as to resume work on my programming language/IDE, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..