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arXiv:1407.6639cs.CR

How the Voynich Manuscript was created

Torsten Timm

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Abstract

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.

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96 pages, 17 figures, revised version
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cs.CRCryptography and Security cs.CLComputation and Language

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  1. Another dubious claim that someone has “decoded” the Voynich manuscript 1 comment

    • Of all the Voynich theories, I find those suggesting it was produced through a mechanistic method to be most persuasive. Several statistical properties of the words just don't match up with any natural languages, and there is a large amount of repetition of individual words with…

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