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Evidence · Voynich Manuscript

The hands are interchangeable in variant choice

The hands are interchangeable in variant choice (z 1.2) while subject moves the same statistics by z 19.

EstablishedObservation0

What it bears on 6 answers

A later forgery on old parchment
Still possible · weighs little · H-TH-FORGERY
NEUTRAL
A mnemonic or notational system
Ruled out · weighs little · H-G-MNEMONIC
FOR
Each scribe ran the procedure in his own way
Most likely · weighs some · H-HANDS-PROCEDURE
FOR
Latin or a vernacular under a table cipher
Still possible · weighs little · H-TH-CIPHER
FOR
No plaintext: a procedure produced it
Still possible · weighs some · H-TH-GENERATED
FOR
No plaintext: composed freely by hand
Still possible · weighs heavily · H-TH-GLOSSOLALIA
AGAINST

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). The hands are interchangeable in variant choice [Evidence EVD0D8GDPTP36PJ]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0D8GDPTP36PJ
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