Cribs in the Voynich MS

[Mark Knowles]

If you have a robust reliable crib and your thesis is that Voynichese is meaningless then you could potentially use that crib to show that there is no kind of correspondence between the Voynichese words and their meaning. So a crib really is useful whether you think Voynichese is a known or unknown language in an unknown script, a cipher, shorthand, invented language or meaningless. A crib is relevant in all of these hypotheses whether it helps to support then or to oppose them.