How the Voynich Manuscript was created
arXiv:1407.6639v310 citations
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This addresses the long-standing mystery of the Voynich manuscript's origin for historians and linguists, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing analyses of word patterns.
The paper tackled the problem of understanding the creation of the Voynich manuscript, a medieval book in an unknown script, by analyzing similarly spelled words, and it revealed the text generation method used.
The Voynich manuscript is a medieval book written in an unknown script. This paper studies the relation between similarly spelled words in the Voynich manuscript. By means of a detailed analysis of similar spelled words it was possible to reveal the text generation method used for the Voynich manuscript.