Automated Topic Analysis of the Voynich Manuscript

[Jorge_Stolfi]

this information can be used to reorder Voynich sections, so that the text begins with Strong-A (HA) and ends with Strong-B (Bio). If I understand correctly, Lisa and Colin are going even more in-depth, also considering the stains that affect many of the pages; they are working on bifolio-level reordering, rather than section-level.

But if the pages/folios/bifolios were to be reordered based on any such "linguistic" similarity criterion, the transitions on the above plots would be gradual --- rather than abrupt steps, as they should be if they were due to switching Scribes or Authors.  No?

It still seems possible that the differences in "languages" are due partly to different topics, partly to the Author changing the spelling/encryption between one section and the next.  Any Scribe changes then could be just incidental, a secondary effect of the writing having stretched over along time (years or decades) -- which would not per se affect the "language".  No?

All the best, --stolfi