[Movie] This Famous Medieval Book May Be a Hoax

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How did the scribe mantained the coherence of words structure using a 'copy-and-modify' mechanism along so many pages,... ?

I think the answer is already in the question: not at all.

That may be too, admittely. 

I have a question for Torsten, if I'm allowed to ask. If I understood correctly the "A possible generating algorithm of the Voynich manuscript" paper, you wrote a software which implements your 'copy-and-modify' procedure, defined some parameters (ie.: which characters are 'similar' according to your rule #1), seeded it with some Voynichese sentence and had it write a pseudo-Voynich text which shows concordance with the real VMS in a number of important statistics (which is a good thing, of course!). May I ask you if you calculated the percentage of hapax legomena your method produced? And, is it possible to have a link to one of the pseudo-Voynich texts? I've always been curious to see what it actually looks like.

I'm not Torsten, but I can provide an answer. Timm and Schinner's Github supplementary materials for their 2019-2020 paper includes a sample generated text, more than 10,830 tokens long: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Of this generated text's 2,228 unique word types, 1,202 of them (~54%) are hapax legomena.