Evidence · Voynich Manuscript

Normalising them removes most of the line effect

Rewriting 7 % of the words with those rules removes 68 % of the information line position carries about a word's first and last glyph (half C: 0.104 / 0.059 bits to 0.029 / 0.022; Latin in the same lines 0.003 / 0.002). Dropping the line-edge words removes more (0.016 / 0.006). The method finds nothing in Latin and finds and undoes three planted rules.

SupportedObservationConfirmatory0

What it means

Key questionHow was the text produced on the page?

Most likely: the line is a unit of the system

Most likelyunchanged

Part of itWhat did the line and page add?

Most likely: -m is a line-final form of -in / -n

Most likelyunchanged

Answer this evidence bears onThe scribes followed a line-edge convention

Supportsweighs heavily · 2 for, none against

Most likelyunchanged

How it was found 2 runs

Layout tests on half C: rule replication, line-position information, language signatures under normalisation, line crowding: share of the line-position information removed by the normaliser…

Method Layout tests on half C: rule replication, line-position information, language signatures under normalisation, line crowding · Session 10

28 Oct

Share of the line-position information removed by the normaliser (half C)68 %Supported

ZL3b transcription Exploration split Line-edge rules learned on half E (46 minimal alternations at paragraph start, line start and line end)

Layout-layer rules and normaliser (minimal line-edge alternations learned on half E; rewrite to the inside form; interior-only text): rules found and undone in Latin laid in the same lines, plain and…

Method Layout-layer rules and normaliser (minimal line-edge alternations learned on half E; rewrite to the inside form; interior-only text) · Session 10

28 Oct

Rules found and undone in Latin laid in the same lines, plain and with three planted line-edge rules (half C)plain Latin: 0 rules, 0.0 rewritten; planted: 8 rules covering all three plants, 75 % of planted words restored exactly, false rewrites 0.0001Control passed

Latin genre texts Exploration split

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). Normalising them removes most of the line effect [Evidence EVD0DCC12VC4858]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DCC12VC4858

@misc{mysteriesdept_evd0dcc12vc4858,
  title     = {Normalising them removes most of the line effect},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DCC12VC4858},
  url       = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DCC12VC4858}
}