[Blog Post] Analysis of cover attachment and VMS binding.

[RenegadeHealer]

I was going to say, Rene, you're in for a treat. I'm glad you of all people have delved into Wladimir Dulov's work, because it deserves more exposure, and your page is arguably the Voynich community's storefront.

I see many, many potential directions for new research based on a lot of the facts that Wladimir unearths. I'm thinking particularly about facts about the book's physical construction, which may offer valuable clues about when, where, and why. For example, sometime when work gets a little less busy after the pandemic is over, I'd like to try and figure out the original order of Herbal B, which I hypothesize was originally one cohesive work, with the intriguing You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as its front page and the even more intriguing You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as its back page. Wladimir's work on the construction, binding, present layout, and possible past layout are my inspiration for this project. His blog will serve as a primary source for my statements about what pages belong to what bifolios, what order they're bound in today, and what order they may have originally been bound.

Wladimir hasn't blogged much about the VMs text, but what he says about it is pretty thought provoking. Spoiler alert: His statistical work on the intra-folio and inter-folio size and variability of the Voynichese lexicon scores a point for the meaningless VMs text hypothesis.