Useful Exercise?

[Rafal]

I thought this could be a useful exercise for someone as there is a lot of discussion about the Voynich here, however one has the sense that few people have experience deciphering other ciphers, which could be relevant experience to deciphering the Voynich.

Do you know these guys? For me they seem to be the best
when it comes to classical ciphers:
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Personally I am rather crap when it comes to classical ciphers I don't speak Latin, like everyone here I know a few words but don't know grammar. And have troubles with reading the classical handwriting. I improved quite a bit since I got interested in this old stuff but still I'm a beginner.

I would still have a bit of advice if you want to deal with that particular cipher. You must work in steps:

1) Transcribe the original Latin text and translate it to English to know what it is all about
2) Assign parts of cipher to deciphered words. As others noticed ithere are not perfectly alligned but rather there is some offset between them
3) One by one assign the cipher signs to letters, syllables and whole words. This way you will recreate cipher key which is your goal I guess

This is quite a lot of work. Have you tried already to make a transcription of the plain text?