The Cardan grille approach to the Voynich MS taken to the next level

[Mark Knowles]

I do not understand exactly what is meant with "mapping of 3 or 4 characters to a sequence of Voynichese characters".

I was referring to the following:

"The choice  of  three  wheels  with  24  different  entries  each  also  allows  other  possibilities.  The  number  24 represents  the  number  of  characters  in  the Greek  alphabet,  but  also  Latin  (when  equating I  with  J  and  U with  V)  and  Italian  (when  not  considering  k  or  w).  A  text  in  any  of  these  languages  could  have  been  split into  groups  of  three  characters,  where  each  character  would  then  be  mapped  to  a  Voynich  word fragment  according  to  the  three  wheels.  This  is  of  course  highly  speculative."

I also note you say the following:

"In  case the wheels  are used  to  set up  an  enumeration  system,  it is  not even  needed  to  actually  create the  wheels  and  turn  them.  The  combinations  can  be  written  down  without  this.  This  may  be  illustrated by  Table  9,  which  shows  a set  of wheels  that  would  generate  all  Roman  numerals  up  to  4999"

I don't know either when that kind of thing was first suggested.