Subtle Signs of Scribal Intent in the Voynich Manuscript
This work addresses the long-standing puzzle of the Voynich Manuscript for historians and cryptographers, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing analyses of script features.
The study tackled the problem of deciphering the Voynich Manuscript by analyzing subtle signs of scribal intent in the script, finding that token distributions vary significantly based on positions defined by both intrinsic script elements and extrinsic illustrations.
This study explores the cryptic Voynich Manuscript, by looking for subtle signs of scribal intent hidden in overlooked features of the "Voynichese" script. The findings indicate that distributions of tokens within paragraphs vary significantly based on positions defined not only by elements intrinsic to the script such as paragraph and line boundaries but also by extrinsic elements, namely the hand-drawn illustrations of plants.