05-02-2018, 08:48 AM
In my opinion what he was seeing was the effect of the 'Line as a functional unit', made famous by Currier.
This is not easily explained in specific detail, but seems to manifest itself mostly in 'something unusual' with first words of lines.
Gabriel Landini clearly noticed this in his Crytologia paper:
Landini, Gabriel: Evidence of linguistic structure in the Voynich MS using spectral analysis, in Cryptologia Vol. 25 Issue 4, 2001, pp. 275-295.
This is not easily explained in specific detail, but seems to manifest itself mostly in 'something unusual' with first words of lines.
Gabriel Landini clearly noticed this in his Crytologia paper:
Landini, Gabriel: Evidence of linguistic structure in the Voynich MS using spectral analysis, in Cryptologia Vol. 25 Issue 4, 2001, pp. 275-295.

