Hi, I’m Kayla Perez.
This is my first time posting here, so I appreciate the space and the work that’s already been done in this community.
Over the past year, I’ve been working independently on the Voynich Manuscript. I initially approached it from a more traditional angle, including attempts at translation, but I kept running into inconsistencies that didn’t seem to follow stable internal rules.
That led me to step back and focus on the manuscript’s structure instead. I worked through it using a process-of-elimination approach, comparing cultural, material, and structural features to see what consistently held across sections rather than trying to force a direct linguistic solution.
I’m aware that the idea of the manuscript being functional or procedural isn’t new, so what I focused on more specifically was how recurring word forms behave within that kind of system.
Instead of assigning meaning, I tracked patterns in position, repetition, and clustering, and looked at whether those behaviors stayed consistent across different sections. The goal was to see if the structure itself could be treated as a constrained system with internal rules.
From that perspective, I started modeling the text as a procedural system, where sequences reflect state changes rather than descriptive statements. In this framework, position, repetition, and density seem to correlate with function within a sequence rather than fixed meaning.
I’m not claiming a decipherment or a final interpretation, just a structural model that seems to account for patterns I couldn’t explain before.
Some specialists in related areas have been willing to take a look and have suggested parts of the approach may be worth further investigation, so I wanted to share it here as well and get broader feedback.
Also, I wanted to say I really appreciated René’s work on the coinage data and related structural breakdowns. That was genuinely helpful when I was tracking recurring forms and trying to understand how consistent patterns were being constructed across sections.
If anyone is interested, I put together a more detailed write-up here:
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