Could incantations explain some of the problems of the Voynich Manuscript

[JoJo_Jost]

Note that I agree that this text has some hints of the quasi-repetitiveness of the Voynich MS, but it is entirely insufficient to explain the textual properties of the MS.

I agree that the Merseburg text alone cannot explain all the textual features of the Voynich Manuscript. It is too short for that.

My argument is more limited: it shows that a genuine, well-documented medieval text genre can quite naturally produce precisely those features that are often considered ‘difficult’ in the Voynich manuscript – dense repetitions, minimal internal variations and sound-oriented sequencing.

In this sense, while it does not explain the Voynich manuscript, it does weaken the argument that such structures are inherently non-linguistic or implausible.

Furthermore, we cannot rule out that parts of the Voynich text stem from a very narrow, formulaic practice. Someone trying to invent and write down spells might simply stay within a small set of familiar patterns, because that is all they know. This would naturally result in strongly repetitive and low-variance text, without requiring any non-linguistic explanation.