Answer · Voynich Manuscript
A religious house's infirmary compendium
The book is the working compendium of a religious house's infirmary: simples, a bloodletting and bathing calendar, baths, the cosmos as a physician needs it, an apothecary's jars and an antidotary.
Where it stands
Still possibleIts test on the held-back half haven't settled it: three pieces of evidence for, two against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.
Evidence 3 for · 2 against
Herbal pages open with a word found on no other page
FOREstablished · weighs some · F-114
The illustrations form a medical and natural-philosophical compendium: herbal, zodiac…
FORSupported · weighs some · F-038
Topics split the herbal pages into two families (ch-/sh-o-r words such as chol, chor,…
FORSupported · weighs little · F-105
Pharmaceutical labels occur in herbal running text no more often than other labels do (26…
AGAINSTSupported · weighs little · F-113
Words of one or two glyphs are not commoner in the recipes than in the herbal (9.3 %…
AGAINSTSupported · weighs little · F-116
Tested by 1 run
| Run | Measured | Result | Against | Decision | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RUN-245 | share of 1-2 glyph words by section, half C (recipe reading predicts recipes > herbal) | B 0.104; C 0.132; H 0.134; P 0.108; S 0.093; T 0.110 | Not supported | 22 Oct |
The questions it answers
Open6 answers, none ahead
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). A religious house's infirmary compendium [Answer ANS0D8G05FG0QNP]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D8G05FG0QNP
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title = {A religious house's infirmary compendium},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Answer, catalog key ANS0D8G05FG0QNP},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D8G05FG0QNP}
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