Measuring Long-Range Structure in the Voynich Manuscript

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So, if I understand you correctly, you are saying that the Voynich Manuscript is like a collection of short stories by different authors and not like a novel by one author.  Is that close?

Not exactly but quite. Without claiming that this is necessarily the correct explanation, the observed gaps could be interpreted as follows:

At the level of paragraphs and folios, the gap is essentially zero. This would be consistent with the same author, topic, and language within those units.

At the level of Currier A and B, the gap is small but clearly present. This is comparable to what we observe when combining different works written in similar but not the same language (for example, Latin and Catalan), where the gap is around 0.001.

At the level of the entire Voynich manuscript, the gap is much larger. Its magnitude is similar to what we see when combining books written in different languages. So there is a sort of difference hierarchy.

So perhaps, and I say this very cautiously, we could hypothesize that there are two languages (A and B), and within each of them different dialects or simmilar languages. I am only saying this to understand the structure of the findings and as a simple explanation of something that can create the gaps dimensionality found in the MS.