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RE: Voynich Reconsidered
dfs346 > 22-08-2026, 08:47 PM
Trial mappings of the 11th through 20th ranked "words" in the Voynich manuscript, transliteration v101.L0.4, to medieval Persian; and some English equivalents.
Trial mappings of the 21st through 30th ranked "words" in the Voynich manuscript, transliteration v101.L0.4, to medieval Persian; and some English equivalents.
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RE: Voynich Reconsidered
dfs346 > 26-08-2026, 03:53 PM
Here's a further experiment in mapping the most frequent "words" in the Voynich manuscript to text strings in medieval Persian.
So far, the permutation that yields the most real words in Persian is as follows:- glyph frequencies from my v101.L0.4 transliteration of the Voynich manuscript
- letter frequencies from the collected works of the poet Kamal Khojandi (1321-1400).
In Khojandi's works, among the common letters two have very similar frequencies: namely م (seventh ranked, 5.5 percent) and ه (eighth ranked, 5.3 percent).
If the Voynich scribes worked from precursor documents in Persian, even contemporary with those of Khojandi, the letter frequencies probably would be slightly different. In particular, the letter م might be eighth ranked, and the letter ه seventh ranked. That would change my mappings.
Applying this interchange of frequencies, I mapped the most common Voynich "word" {8am} to the Persian word سه (in English, "three"). That seems a more plausible mapping than my first attempt.
Above are my revised trial mappings of the top ten Voynich "words". - glyph frequencies from my v101.L0.4 transliteration of the Voynich manuscript
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RE: Voynich Reconsidered
dfs346 > 29-08-2026, 05:36 PM
In the collected works of the Persian poet Kamal Khojandi (1321-1400), among the common letters there are two pairs which have very similar frequencies:
* م (seventh ranked, 5.5 percent) and ه (eighth ranked, 5.3 percent)
* ک (11th ranked, 3.4 percent) and س (12th ranked, 3.4 percent).
Applying these interchanges of rankings, I mapped the most common Voynich "word" {8am} to the Persian word که (for which the English equivalents include "that", "which", "who", "whom" and "than"). That seems a more plausible mapping than my first and second attempts.
Applied to the fifty most frequent Voynich "words", this mapping generates thirty-nine real Persian words which occur in my corpus of reference; and forty-three real Persian words which are listed in Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary.
Below are my revised trial mappings of the top ten Voynich "words".
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RE: Voynich Reconsidered
dfs346 > 31-08-2026, 01:30 PM
Noting that this thread has moved to the "Theories and Solutions" section, I affirm that my posts within this thread do not constitute a theory or a solution. They are reports on my ongoing research, and as such, are better classified as news.