Evidence · Voynich Manuscript

First glyphs carry information about the section

A word's first glyph carries 9 % of the information the whole word carries about its section, three times what a Latin first letter carries (3 %); ol- is commonest in the bathing pages (8.6 %) and rarest in the herbal (2.4 %).

SupportedObservationConfirmatory0

What it bears on 1 answer

A constructed philosophical language (v0.1)

Still possible · weighs little · H-V01-CONLANG

FOR

Found by 2 runs

Run	Measured	Result	Against	Decision	Date
RUN-243	MI(first glyph; section) as a share of MI(word; section), half C	0.094	Latin first letter 0.033	Prefix carries more topic than in Latin	22 Oct
RUN-244	Share of ol-initial words by section (v0.1 M-03 predicted astronomical and balneological highest), half C	B 0.086; C 0.053; H 0.024; P 0.040; S 0.042; T 0.059		See values	22 Oct

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). First glyphs carry information about the section [Evidence EVD0D8GDZ4A6NK3]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0D8GDZ4A6NK3

@misc{mysteriesdept_evd0d8gdz4a6nk3,
  title     = {First glyphs carry information about the section},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0D8GDZ4A6NK3},
  url       = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0D8GDZ4A6NK3}
}