Repetition of words

[Mauro]

I imagine the pain St. Thomas Aquinas had to endure when he wrote his Summa Theologica with such a limited vocabulary...

Just to clarify for myself, the voynich transcript has a lot of different words. More than usually used in Latin? I am mean the whole text has 8000 different words according to forum.

The VMS (*) has 38411 words (**) in total, and 8424 unique words (***), that is to say 1 word type every ~4.56 word tokens. This is just a slightly higher percentage than for instance Caesar's De Bello Gallico (1 word type every ~4.67 word tokens). And consider De Bello Gallico is a much longer text (~51000 word tokens in total), and with longer texts the percentage of unique word types is expected to decrease. I'd rather say De Bello Gallico is slightly more varied in 'vocabulary' than the VMS, if any.


(*) Rf1a-n transcription, words with question marks removed
(**) word tokens
(***) word types