John Wycliffe Latin ms letters and Voynich characters

[Helmut Winkler]

@ David

You got the idea, but you have to begin to think like a medieval scholar, not like a modern mathematically minded scientist. The VMs writer did not construe a ciphre, but developed out of the medieval abbr. system, which was very flexible anyway in the 15th c., a kind of personal shorthand. And I think the problems you are adressing are pseudoproblems, no one, for example, knows anything about the statistics of an abbr. medieval Latin text, especially since the statistics must vary with every  single ms.