Observations on the Visual and Functional Structure of the Voynich Manuscript

[Mauro]

It could be an internally codified language, where expressing a single concept requires long and repetitive constructions.

The redundancy may not be accidental, but structural — a way to ensure precision within a very limited symbol set.

The content might not be narrative at all. It could be limited to very specific domains, such as plants and their properties.

The images may not exist to document reality, but to explain and transmit knowledge within a closed group — perhaps to teach, to catalog, or to preserve procedures and rules.

I find all this to be very generic statements, more a test of the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (or Barnum) effect than anything substantial.

In that sense, the manuscript could function more as an internal technical or ritual compendium than as a conventional literary text.

This has been suggested many times, and in many different forms, from astronomical notation to alchemical laboratory procedures to musical 'resonances', even a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. . Any of these might well be, who knows, the problem is to find a specific 'decoding' system which works and convinces people.