Analysis of Voynich Average Cross-Entropy Loss

[Trithemius]

The peak around f105 is curious. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is the only page within quire 20 that has a top margin with a strange starting doodle. It might be that it was originally the first page of the section. But also because it appears that the manuscript was written sheet-by-sheet and not in book page order the pages on the other half of the sheet ( You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ) might exhibit the same divergence in your graph. But your graph stops at f113v. Why does it not show the last pages of quire 20? Also there seems to be something odd about f115v. It seems not to be representative of the section. I am trying to find out why, and I am curious to know what the divergence is for that page.

Good catch, I think I might have accidentally truncated the results because of a nuance of my code. I'll try to see why it's not completing to the end.

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[quote="Trithemius" pid='72773' dateline='1762292329']I looked at the word-length frequency and character-frequency of the Voynich and created a random corpus of equal length which has the same word length and character frequency histograms, but are effectively random.

Thank you for sharing this Jorge, I hadnt seen these models before, but I've thought that something like this would make sense. I'll try to examine the text through this lens and see what comes of it!