I deal with ligatures/berigraphs, especially words in the Voynich texts that can be identified relatively clearly with them (if they are Latin). Based on these words, you can “decipher” the surrounding glyphs—more or less statistically—i.e., assign them contexts of meaning. From this, you can derive patterns that can be synchronized with comparative texts to find more advanced patterns, which in turn can decipher other words. Unfortunately, this is very, very time-consuming. Especially since Latin is a very flexible language, which doesn't make it any easier.
I have already been able to deduce a few (meaningful) sentences (no eisegesis as far as reading is concerned), but that is still far too little—further side-by-side comparisons are needed to support the respective translations/meanings. It's a tedious puzzle with an uncertain outcome. But what I have so far at least allows me to conclude that something “could” work. However, there are also strange findings, such as the fact that the herbal text does not contain any recipes at all, but descriptions of the plant's vascular systems, which is very confusing. (in one possible pattern, at least)
In this respect, I have currently interrupted my investigation and am trying to clarify what these herbal texts contain using a completely different approach. I can't (yet) imagine this with the vascular systems. Although the theory arose here that the unusually detailed description of the roots might have something to do with the Balneological Section - but who nows...
I have already been able to deduce a few (meaningful) sentences (no eisegesis as far as reading is concerned), but that is still far too little—further side-by-side comparisons are needed to support the respective translations/meanings. It's a tedious puzzle with an uncertain outcome. But what I have so far at least allows me to conclude that something “could” work. However, there are also strange findings, such as the fact that the herbal text does not contain any recipes at all, but descriptions of the plant's vascular systems, which is very confusing. (in one possible pattern, at least)
In this respect, I have currently interrupted my investigation and am trying to clarify what these herbal texts contain using a completely different approach. I can't (yet) imagine this with the vascular systems. Although the theory arose here that the unusually detailed description of the roots might have something to do with the Balneological Section - but who nows...