Some considerations upon Voynich-synth

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Suppose, further, that the mixture is referenced in the recipe section not by the mixture's name, but in some roundabout fashion (dunno, say, folio number/row number). But how would the name of the respective disease be encoded? And if it can be encoded, then how it is that names of plants can not?

I've spent years trying to discover whether this is so.


A few years ago, I created a concordance of the entire manuscript to try to discern whether there were code-links between sections (like between plants that might go together in a mixture, for example).

What I can say is I have a very long and complete record of the connections between the illustrated pages and the starred-text pages at the end and it appears that there MIGHT be links between individual pages and the starred-text pages (it took months and months of hard work to map this), but I cannot find discernible CONSISTENT patterns between related plants or plants and pool pages, for example. Certainly there's overlap and even some interesting patterns, but... there's no strong indication of specific commonalities.


But, here's the problem. My original concordance respected the spaces between Vwords (I then started one that doesn't) and if the spaces in the VMS are flexible or if they are fake spaces, then it will take MUCH more work to discern whether there are code-words to link things up.


It's also possible that each section of the manuscript was intended to be semi-standalone (in other words, the starred text might not be recipes, they might be something like proverbs and thus unrelated to plant or pool pages).


Even if individual sections of the manuscript have no obvious code-links, I was disappointed that I did not find any obvious code-links between plants with the same uses or with the same morphology. I really thought I would. I found links, many of them, but not ones that you could say, ah, good, these are linked AND they belong together in such-and-such a way.