A priori or A posteriori cracking?

[Mark Knowles]

I would add to that in respect to the potential herbal identifications and textual comparisons that such investigations have actively failed. In all categories, herbal, astronomical, religious, etc., there are no 'candidates' for investigation.

But failure in the past does not mean failure in the future. A large percentage of the relevant material out there has not been studied by Voynich researchers, particularly as researchers tend only to rely on the limited amount of material that has been digitised.