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  thevisad > 14-05-2026, 06:44 PM

  Hi, my name is Sean aka TheVisad, and over the course of the last several months I have been working on the manuscript. Instead of approaching the systems as a language, I decided to look at it from a perspective that it was a data system instead. I have long worked with data systems and saw this as just something fun to poke at. Outlined below, is what I have discovered so far regarding the Manuscript. 
  
  By no means is this a decipherment, from the moment I picked up the book I knew it was not translatable. This is a computational demonstration that the Voynich Manuscript is a deterministic, reproducible structural system. That every token of it's 37,671 word corpus can be derived from first principles with zero residual entropy. That the machine is based in the Ottoman Anatolian Turkish Eastern Arabic abjad system and used as mathematical formula based on mod35, which has historical aspects in the Eastern systems. That the machine is a two-sided wheel that provides the triple-layer word structure that maps directly to the only period in Turkish linguistic history where the language simultaneously used all three morphological systems.
  
  What I propose is that the Voynich manuscript is the operational log of a 14 selector volvelle. The Voynich Manuscript is the output of a medieval Islamic pharmaceutical look up device used by the letterists in the Ottoman Empire in the 1420's. Voynich is not a natural language, it is not a cipher over a hidden plaintext, and it is not a meaningless hoax. The manuscript itself tells us the story in several of the folios. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. IS the machine described below, the 9-page fold out IS THE internal mechanism of the volvelle. The four gated dial on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. IS THE gallows. The pages outline the machine itself, and it's not until we the "Frankensteinian Morphology" of the three linguistic families, Persian Prefixes, Arabic Interiors and Turkish Agglutinative Suffixes that the system clicks. 
  
  The device consists of 14 mechanical selectors, arranged into two functional layers, the machine, and apparatus layers. The machine layer is a 14-selector deterministic finite state machine with four outer wheels, eight interior position dials, a walk state selector derived from sequential context, and a binary tashdid doubling operator. This machine layer generates all tokens, with zero residual entropy at 100% token determination. The interior dials operate via a linear congruential generator over residues modulo 35, where the gallows detent selects the multiplier. Four specific abjad numerical positions (q=Qaf=19, r=Ra=20, s=Sin=15, y=Ya=10) match the Eastern Arabic abjad system exactly, confirming the arithmetic base.
  
  The apparatus layer is a 13-slot cyclic ring machine operating concurrently with the machine layer. The apparatus labels correspond to ring positions clockwise from an output gate: collection, preamble, reset gate, cosmological transformation mediator, transformation operator, herbal routing, cosmological routing, cycle-completion gate, and five vapor/formula tracking labels.
  
  The machine's structure maps to the medieval Arabic za'irajah, a mechanical divination device documented by Ibn Khaldūn in 1377. The za'irajah has 8 concentric circles, 12 zodiac spokes producing 13 operational states (12 zodiac chords + 1 pole/vers-clef), a 55 × 131 lookup table (7,205 cells), and a fixed operating poem by Mālik b. Wuhayb that indicates the description and operation of the controls  for a full cycle completion. These are matching, respectively, the volvelle's 8 prefix channels, 12 active apparatus slots + 1 K-GATE pole, ~4,243-entry dictionary (interior lookup space ~7,861 cells), and the k-label cycle-completion gate.
  
  I propose that the Voynich manuscript, is the mechanical output, of a paper machine, created by two medieval Islamic scribes. These scribes worked on the manuscript sometime in 1400-1420, and wrote the book based on the output of the machines deterministic view. The manuscript we have is the written record of this process. There are no visible mistakes, there are no visible cross outs, and no observed locations that the scribes ever made a mistake. Across the entire 37,671 tokens, the manuscript presents a clean execution record, not a drafted prose text.
  
  I have additional theories that are associated with the OAT morphological aspects, and how they correlate to medical purposes. I am pursuing a line of research that the pages are an actual recipe. Not in the normal sense that you and I are familiar with, grab two teaspoons of salt to do this with it. Rather, they are a machine record of a process to take a set of ingredients and use the machine to determine the process. The users of the za'irajah created a question; this question was broken down and used as the input of the wheel. Then following the guidelines of the poem, allowed for one full cycle of the device to obtain its output. The output of the device was the medical recipe that divination provided from the device and was used to “cure” the patient. 
  
  The attached images show some of the output from the scripts I have created, and the zip file contains a demo of the wheel's processes as it moves through the folios. I welcome any and all questions, feedback, and criticism. I have a ton of research, files, data, scripts, grammar output, and more. I would welcome working with someone to verify the data, the machine, and the findings I have. I am still assembling the public repository, but have a private repository I can share readily and over 2tb of data offline that can be shared that is directly related to overall project. 
  
  Sean Rice aka TheVisad
  
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• RE: My Voynich Work

  thevisad > 2 hours ago

  As indicated in my previous post, the Volvelle that seems to have generated the book tokens is based on or is a variation of the "Za'irajah of the world". Using the Jaccard we can compare the architectural features of the two devices. However, why stop there? As a control, we should include as many medieval computations devices as possible, the astrolab, the apian volvelle, the alberti cipher wheel and others. Permutation tests were done across all 9 different devices. The nearest scores a 0.625, while the Za'irajah scores a Jaccard value of 1.0. The zairaja, which is a variation of the za'irajah scores incredibly high in the matrix as well. This shows that mathematically, the devices share the same features and functionality.
  
  
  
  
  For the healer, there was a procedure to follow, a poem to be sung. This is step one and cannot be stressed enough that this requirement must be met. Ask the question in rhyme, get an answer in rhyme. Otherwise you will receive a "normal" answer. This meant that a true divinational request required that the poem be sung and rhymed. This was required for the mechanical aspects of the wheel. 28 Arabic letters and 7 wheels for celestial bodies equals the mod 35 that the machine is based on. Without this rhyme structure, the arithmetic does not provide a coherent answer. Ibn Khaldun explicitly stated, "Without the bayt comparison, the method does not produce a rhymed answer."
  
  Step two consists of resolving the poem into the fixed carrier that the original pangrammic provides, all 28 letters exactly once. The machine will then cycle through both the question letters and the chord letters and compare them against this verse. The shaddah, or the tashdid is one of the diacritics indicating a consonant doubling, making the total letter count 43, not 28. This is the mechanism that fires in my model, the shadda and the tashdid are the same mark, name and function in the device. The carrier poem is shown below and is in the pdf’s list in the end. This poem is required to assemble the question for the individual.
  
  سؤال عظيم الخلق حزت فصن إذن
  غرائب شك ضبطه الجد مثلا
  
  Step three is where the za'irajah adds in the 7 astral or planetary governors, the seven classical planets, the sun, moon, mars, mercury, jupiter, venus and saturn. We accept the original question in the form of 28 and then add in the 7 dials here to receive our modulus 35 for the emission. Mod 35 is the alphabet and the heavens.
  
  In step four these letters become numbers, which is where the abjad comes into play. Each Arabic letter has a fixed numerical value under the Eastern abjad which it appears the Voynich volvelle is based on. qaf = 100, ra = 200, sin = 60, ya = 10 and the 28 letters collapse to 5 class values under mod 35, absorb (0), vowel (10), gallows (15), conson (25), and process (30). These are required for step five where we drive the machine using these values. See the image for the look up table, while hard to see, shows roughly ~7200 internal values.
  
  We are at the stage where we need to drive the machine. Step five allows the LCG to mechanically advance the state of the machine. The gallows detent physically selects the multiplier. With no gallows, a = 20 and we have a 2 cycle vowel <-> consonant. With GtB gallows, a = 6 and has the same 2 cycle process. In GkB gallows, a = 24 and this allows the machine to escape out of the sequence and process into a different orbit. Finally at GkM gallows, a = 3, and we are in our process attractor mode of the machine. This two cycle process is modular arithmetic, and not a vowel consonant alternation. It produces this pattern because 10x20 mod 35 equals 25 and 25x20 mod 35 is 10. This pattern was observed in the manuscripts linked in the post.
  
  The last stage is the divinational aspect of the wheel. This is where our answer appears in the system. The cycle class above allows us to select the value class, and the outer wheels which provide the prefix, suffix and walk state select the specific grapheme within that class. That is the two stage look up, the LCG gives you the row, the outer selectors give you the column. In the za'irajah the cycle arithmetic gives you the index, this is entered into the pole verse and whatever letter appears you write it down. Do this 13 times, with a repeating cycle and you get the output phrase. For the Voynich, we have the same process by the 28 letters expanded to 90 suffix positions and the output is a pharmaceutical recipe line instead of a rhymed divinatory answer. Again, this recipe line is not one we are likely familiar with and is just the mechanical output of the machine. For the Voynich Volvelle we receive the tokens from the Voynich manuscript as an output and which are assembled from the viewing area.
  
  So if we know that this "Za'irajah of the world", is the driving force behind the Voynich volvelle and is providing an answer, then how can we use this? How can we verify that what we are seeing from this machine is telling us to use these methods? Can we verify these values out of the machine correspond to medicines? Compounds? Seasons? We cannot translate it, we do not know what it is saying, so how can we be sure that what we are seeing is really an output of the device? One method I am exploring is  using the old manuscripts from the OAT era that were specifically for medical purposes. Taking the core fact that the machine is built from the tri lateral roots that form the OAT language, it gives a targeted approach to look at the building blocks that might make the tokens. Using the words with unique consonants that match the consonant skeleton that is being drawn from the machine, the Jaccard matches overwhelmingly indicating medical recipes that line up with very specific compounds within the manuscripts. This is a direct correlative aspect from the Za’irajah and can be looked up in the books listed below.
  
  As part of the battery of adversarial tests the Codex Seraphinianus was used to determine the Jaccard closeness to the consonant skeleton.
  
  
  
  
  In the attached images in this chapter are the Za’irajah wheel and the look up table. The look up table has been feature matched to be able to target the letters and content inside of the table for any potential recovery. The Jaccard similarities for the currently replicated Voynich Volvelle and the other devices similar to it and the operating procedures. There is an open scad rendering of the machine itself.
  
  
  
  Note: the volvelle viewer in the previous post is an automated viewer for replaying the original folios through the Vonich Volvelle and is based on an earlier version without the apparatus layer. This layer can be seen in the OpenScad model of the machine. The OpenScad model represents the current development path and the viewer a presentable, functional model that explains the Voynich Volvelle.
  
  Thanks for your time reading this post. Please feel free to send questions or comments.
  
  
  Sean Rice
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Research books used to identify and discover the above information. This data comes from real history and real books that indicate these historical aspects
  
  Prior art for the Za’irajah of the world, its operating procedures and poems showing a historical reference. I have reached out to the library in Morocco which holds the manuscript that has the personal account of the device itself by its creator. There are no digitized versions of this manuscript and this would be the final closing aspect on the Za’irajah. There is first hand information on the device itself from the books we have from Franz Rosenthal. Those links are listed below. 
  
  Requested Manuscript:
  Bibliothèque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc / former Bibliothèque générale de Rabat
  Manuscript inventory no. 491
  Catalogued by Évariste Lévi-Provençal as no. 478 in Les manuscrits arabes de Rabat, Première série, 1921
  Section: Astrologie et Sciences occultes
  Composite manuscript / recueil
  Target item: II. Ouvrage de gadwal by Gamâl/Jamāl ed-Dîn Abd el-Malik b. Abd Allah el-Marjānī
  Folios 7–29
  
  
  
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