Cribs in the Voynich MS

[ReneZ]

It is one thing to have a list of cribs (or potential cribs), with a wide range of quality.

It is quite another thing what one does with it.
Obviously, from the earliest days onward, they would be used to find a combination of
- language
- character substitution
that converted these cribs into something meaningful.

This has led to zero success, and there does not seem to be any reason to expect that this will be different in similar present and future attempts.

It requires something more than just character substitution, and this adds to the already high level of freedom that Koen indicated in one of the last posts.

What one can do already is to use these cribs to test solutions.

What, in the context of any given solution, is the PT version of these cribs?

This has never been done to my best knowledge, and the reason is in most cases, that the 'solution method'  is only understood by the person proposing this solution, and this person (or small group) is also the only one who can apply the method. The usual explanation is that the translation is complicated.

We just don't even get to the point of testing the solution using the cribs.