Vocabulary size by Illustration Type

[Torsten]

This hypothesis implies a simple encoding in which 'vords' always translate 1:1 into plaintext words regardless of context, which is highly questionable considering the strange properties of 'Voynichese'. If it was that easy, the VM would have been deciphered long ago.

Indeed.

But still so far there is little (if any?) evidence of a connection between text and imagery. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

To illustrate my point I have used three different colors to mark all instances of vords containing the sequences 'ed' (plum), 'ho' (green), and 'in' (yellow): You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

The pages are obviously not independent of one another, since pages colored in similar way tend to be adjacent to one another in the manuscript. However if we look into the details the distribution of vords appears much more complicated.

There are at least two kinds of pages using herbal illustrations. There are herbal pages dominated by green + yellow (Currier A).
But there are also herbal pages dominated by plum + yellow (Currier B). However, some herbal pages in Currier A also contain vords colored in plum (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) and herbal pages in Currier B frequently contain vords colored in green. One page even contains a paragraph colored in green + yellow and another paragraph colored in plum + yellow (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).

For the stars section it is even possible to point to pages dominated by vords colored in plum (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) whereas the very next page is dominated by 'yellow' vords. Even another page within the very same section contains an unusual high number of vords colored in green (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).

Decide yourself if this type of changes 'suggests that the illustrations in each part of the text are relevant to the linguistic text in each section' [You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., p. 303] or if it is more correct to describe this type of changes as: 'No obvious rule can be deduced which words form the top-frequency tokens at a specific location, since a token dominating one page might be rare or missing on the next one" [You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., p. 3].