John Wycliffe Latin ms letters and Voynich characters

[ReneZ]

There is absolutely no reason to think that the effect of abbreviating a text, either by leaving out characters, by  replacing frequent combinations by a single sign, or a combination of that will:
- reduce the entropy in any significant manner
- introduce the word patterns we see in the Voynich MS text.

The first point is a simple mathematical consideration.

Mathematics is just a tool. There is nothing wrong with applying modern tools to old artefacts.

We can look at manuscripts through large magnifications.
We can analyse the composition of the materials with techniques that did not exist 100 years ago.
We can apply maths to analyse the text.

The problem always arises (in all above cases) when trying to draw conclusions from these observations.