From "decryption" to "translation"

[Anton]

2) My understanding is that handwriting experts have concluded that the author wrote the script as if he had mastered it. The "ductus" is smooth, as they say: the script flows smoothly from letter to letter. Whereas an author less familiar with the script would be expected to have written with more stops and starts, etc.

Well I must have said that I mean "mastering of applying the script" - that is, expressing one's thoughts in Voynichese or translating some plain text into it. I do not mean mastering of putting the glyphs down. The vast majority of Voynichese glyphs are just common written symbols of the time, so any educated person of that period would be comfortable with writing that. This letting alone the possibility that the text on parchment was prepared on some "draft" in advance and transferred to the parchment only later.

As for You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , that is only a tiny fragment of a few lines on the top of the last page.

It contains Voynichese, this is what makes it exceedingly important.

Can we even be sure You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. was written by the same person or people who wrote the rest of the ms? I would be hesitant to base any general conclusions on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .

The hand in the Voynichese writing being similar, and the Voynichese being not very widespread language, that would be the foremost assumption for me.

meaningless text hypothesis is still a very real possibility that we have to keep in mind.

It is a possibility, but not "very" real, IMO. Both corpus-wide statistical calculations (Montemurro & Zanette) and many tiny local observations indicate the opposite. Like, both most frequent Voynich stars are mentioned in f1r, and I can provide more indications. The Ockham's razor is also turned against that.

TBH, I even don't consider that possibility seriously in my own research - not because I don't like it, but because I don't see how it would be real.