[Article] The Voynich Cipher Disk

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The good part of the paper appears to be derived from Rene's work You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.: three concentric wheels with Voynichese prefixes, stems and suffixes form a verbose cipher that could encode the letters of an ordinary alphabet. A while ago, I illustrated the idea in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ("ant" is encoded as "qokedy"). In his paper, Rene discusses some of the potential problems with this idea.

Despite the statement that "Each word in the Manuscript, such as kchdy, must be broken down into INITIAL, MEDIAL and FINAL tokens" this is not what is done in the decoding example on the same page. There are "placeholder" (null) characters and even without them, I see several finals (green) in succession, missing initial, missing medial, etc. so it looks like every component is optional. There is also a 4th "outer" component that seems to be surrounded only by optional nulls.

There are many possible ambiguities (I don't know how they can be resolved):
outer ts = initial t, medial s
outer tche = initial t, medial che
medial ol = final ol
initial d, final aiin = final daiin
etc.