A Numeric Solution

[pfeaster]

One problem with this theory is that the frequencies of glyphs are quite non-uniform.  If the text of the VMS is a bunch of numbers, then presumably each "word" would refer a word in a code book.

There are numerical scenarios that don't involve sequentially numbered word lists -- for example, simply substituting ascending numbers for letters of the alphabet (A = 1, B = 2, L = 10, M = 11, etc.) or encipherment via Polybius Square (A = 1-1, B = 1-2, F = 2-1, etc.), either of which would or could involve uneven digit frequencies.

Not that I'm suggesting either of those particular examples would be a much better statistical fit overall.  But the hypothesis that Voynichese is partly or wholly numerical doesn't necessarily go hand in hand with any one specific type of encoding mechanism.  It just implies some kind of reliance on numerical ordering or counting.

Or number forms could also be borrowed, even consciously, w1th0ut r3f3r3nce 2 the1r num3r1cal valu3s.