So.. What should I actually be doing?

[eggyk]

Thank you for both of your replies.

I guess this should be fairly hard if you don't have some exclusive access to a trove of undigitized manuscripts, preferably from the XV century Europe. Voynichese is quite easy to recognize, especially the gallows characters, and they do look remarkable, so the fact that no-one has found anything yet means it was not very popular and I'd say likely was created specifically for this MS.

I think this one is more likely than finding Voynichese text. Again, access to a large number of contemporary manuscripts would help.

Is the implication that all of the currently digitised and accessible manuscripts have likely already been looked over by the people here? I'm not sure how the digitisation process goes; how often they are publically released etc.

On the other hand, this is my personal favorite, so I certainly won't argue that it's pointless, etc... One just has to bear in mind that the success here is quite improbable and all the odds are definitely against any specific person achieving this. On the other hand, I think that the chance of somebody finding the right approach is quite high. So, the more people try, the better the overall chances are.

I feel similarly to this honestly. I would love to sit there and test some of my showerthought induced hunches, but the chances are that even if it leads to something, it will lead to me being convinced I am right and the rest are wrong.