The Voynich manuscript: Symbol roles revisited

Vladimír Matlach, Barbora Anna Janečková and Daniel Dostál

PLOS ONE, 2022, vol. 17, issue 1, 1-26

Abstract: In this article, we employ simple descriptive methods in order to explore the peculiar behavior of the symbols in the Voynich Manuscript. Such an analysis reveals a group of symbols which are further analyzed for the possibility of being compounds (or ligatures), using a specifically developed method. The results suggest the possibility that the alphabet of the manuscript is a lot smaller, and steganographic type of encoding is proposed to explain the newly revealed properties.

Date: 2022
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