The Voynich-Ms as a concatenation of abbreviations

[Helmut Winkler]

I agree that it makes sense to look at abbreviations, since the glyph set is mostly numerals, abbreviation symbols and ligatures. What I don't understand yet is how exactly this would work. Does the text reference chapters to be looked up in a regular book?

I think so, at least in the Herbal, the problem, of couse, is there are no chapter numbers and plant names