Voynich ManuscriptEvidence
Evidence · Voynich Manuscript
No Naibbe-family variant reaches the edge dependency or near-twins in any section
No Naibbe-family variant, in any of six sections, reproduces the manuscript's dependency between the end of one word and the start of the next, or its rate of near-twin words, even with first glyphs removed.
What it means
Most likelyunchanged
Most likelyunchanged
Answer this evidence bears onLatin or Italian under the Naibbe cipher
Counts against2 for, 3 against
Still possibleunchanged
Next steps 5
1
T39, second round of the section-level grid: add the two mechanisms that produce what T38 cannot reach. (a) Re-spacing: write the cipher as a continuous glyph stream and place spaces by a rule (after word-final glyphs such as -y, -n, -r, -l, before q-, ch-, d-), so word edges depend on neighbouring glyphs (T15's re-spaced stream gave edge MI 0.22). (b) Local copying: with probability p the next word is a one-glyph variant of a word among the last w (self-citation), for the near-twins. Cross with the T38 table-stay knob and the line layer, confirm best settings on fresh seeds.
~8 h
—not judged
2
Naibbe-type key over glyph strings learned from the manuscript rather than Greshko's inventory (which reads 78 % of tokens), with whole-word signs for common words, validated on planted keys first. It would also have to keep page locality, which letter-level homophones erase (M-T36).
~16 h
—not judged
3
Codebook attack: group one-glyph variant families that share contexts, then align the manuscript's co-occurrence structure with Latin texts of the same genres (unsupervised lexicon induction: embedding alignment, graph matching). Validate on a planted Latin codebook with variants laid into the same pages first.
~20 h
—not judged
4
Section-level key search: run the M-T37 solver within single sections (training and held-out pages alternating by bifolio), so a key need not hold across sections whose order and scribes differ.
~6 h
—not judged
Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takesAll 5 on the question
Sources 2
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). No Naibbe-family variant reaches the edge dependency or near-twins in any section [Evidence EVD0DC8YPZGAWSV]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DC8YPZGAWSV
@misc{mysteriesdept_evd0dc8ypzgawsv,
title = {No Naibbe-family variant reaches the edge dependency or near-twins in any section},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DC8YPZGAWSV},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DC8YPZGAWSV}
}