The Voynich MS - Table of Contents
Brief introduction
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Core section
Welcome...
The executive summary
More help in finding your way
Formal collation
Introduction
Animals
The Sun
The Moon
Stars, Constellations
T-O maps
Christian imagery
Miscellaneous
Possible relation between illustrations and text
Introduction
When and how was the Voynich MS produced
Hints from the illustrations in the MS
Some more annotations on the MS
The place of origin according to some theories
Author / scribe
Does the text of the Voynich MS have any meaning?
What else can we deduce about the author(s)?
Introduction
Overview
The earliest history of the MS
The road to Prague
The unknown owner
The English / American period
Introduction
Overview
The earliest research
The Catholic University of America
Theodor Holm
Some science and art historians
The end of the Roger Bacon cipher MS
Other researchers
Feely
Strong
First Study Group
Second Study Group
The 1970's
Robert S. Brumbaugh
William Ralph Bennett
Jeffrey Krischer
A.G. Watson
John Stojko
Leo Levitov
Child
Jorge Stolfi
Gordon Rugg
Nick Pelling
Andreas Schinner
Edith Sherwood
Web logs (blogs)
100 years of Voynich MS
More statistical analyses
More recent proposed solutions
More forensic and expert investigations
Yale photo facsimile of the MS
Introduction
Main text writing
Non-sequential writing
Alchemical symbols
14th and 15th Century cipher
Initials
Rare characters
General
Folio and Quire numbers
Other 'plain text' writing
Mixed writings in or near margins
Other
Introduction
Purpose and terminology
History
Transliteration in the age of the WWW
Introduction
Achievements
Problem areas
Some statistics
Introduction
Text Analysis: Table of Contents
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Observations in the printed literature
2.3 Character frequencies
2.7 Other material
2.7.1 Line-initial/final and word initial/final character properties
2.7.2 Location of gallows (and other) characters
3.1 Introduction
3.1.1 Tiltman's split in roots and suffixes
3.1.2 Mike Roe's generic word
3.1.3 Robert Firth's split into odd and even groups
3.2 Jorge Stolfi's ground-breaking work
3.2.1 Split into 'soft' and 'hard' characters
3.2.2 Fine structure
3.2.3 Word grammar
3.3.1 Introduction
3.3.2 First example
3.3.5 Brief summary of these examples
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Observations in printed literature at the word level
4.3 Are word spaces significant?
4.4 Are words really words?
4.5 Word frequencies
4.6 Word length distribution
4.9 Other material
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Observations in printed literature at syntax level
5.3 Repeating Phrases
5.4.1 Older work, mostly page-based
5.4.2 Topic modeling
5.5 Long-range correlations
5.5.1 The Letter Serial Correlation analysis
5.5.2 Long-range correlations by Gabriel Landini
5.5.3 The work of Amancio et al.
5.6 Other analyses
5.6.2 Word permutation analysis by Marke Fincher
5.6.3 Reddy and Knight
5.6.4 University of Adelaide
Introduction, or: what is it about the Voynich MS, really
The text
What does a good solution look like
More generally about solutions
Assumptions
What I believe
General
Origin, time
Origin, place
Author(s)
Who, why?
More about the MS history
The meaning of the Voynich MS
Plain text, cipher or meaningless
The word structure
The overall meaning of the MS
What has already been done
Expertise
Availability of information
Reference Section
Foreword
Foreword
Introduction
The New York Public Library
Archives of American Art
J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
The New York Academy of Medicine Library
The NSA Historical Records Collection
Introduction
National Library of the Czech Republic ("B")
Strahov Library ("B")
Roman archive of the Society of Jesus ("R")
National Library of Italy in Rome ("R")
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana ("R")
1. Introduction
Gallery 1: Illustrations of the MS
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Latest update: 02/06/2025
