Answer · Voynich Manuscript
No plaintext: composed freely by hand
The text has no plaintext; it was composed freely in a personal, language-like idiom, as in glossolalia or automatic writing.
Where it stands
Still possibleIts tests haven't settled it: five pieces of evidence for, two against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.
Evidence 5 for · 2 against
Adjacent identical and near-identical words are common
FOREstablished · weighs some · F-011
Adjacent pages share vocabulary, as in languages
FOREstablished · weighs little · F-027
Glyph entropy is lower than in any of 103 languages
FOREstablished · weighs some · F-010
Word order carries almost no information
FOREstablished · weighs some · F-017
Words spelled alike are used alike
FOREstablished · weighs some · F-015
Five scribes wrote the text
AGAINSTEstablished · weighs some · F-003
The hands are interchangeable in variant choice
AGAINSTEstablished · weighs heavily · F-024
Pages group by Currier language and scribe
NEUTRALSupported · weighs little · F-107
The questions it answers
Most likelyA notation or memory system
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). No plaintext: composed freely by hand [Answer ANS0D8G04ZW0AK0]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D8G04ZW0AK0
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title = {No plaintext: composed freely by hand},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Answer, catalog key ANS0D8G04ZW0AK0},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D8G04ZW0AK0}
}