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MYS08HTEHX052AX · mystery · click to copy
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Voynich Manuscript
What kind of text is it?
Is it a cipher of a known language?
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Is it a cipher of a known language?
Asked 25 Oct 2026 by
apollo
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What kind of text is it?
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Each word is a fragment of a verbose cipher
Can't be tested yet
Evidence: 1 against
Disputed
A known language under a homophonic cipher
Failed its test
Evidence: 1 against
Ruled out
Each word encodes one letter (Naibbe-type)
Failed its test
Evidence: 1 against
Ruled out
Each word is a set of letters written out in one fixed canonical order (an anagram cipher…
Failed its test
Evidence: 1 against
Ruled out
Latin or Italian under a chancery mixed key
Failed its test
Evidence: 3 against
Ruled out
One of 103 languages under simple substitution
Failed its test
Evidence: 1 against
Ruled out
One or two glyphs are nulls
Failed its test
Evidence: 1 against
Ruled out
The glyph stream has been transposed with a fixed period (columnar, route or decimation),…
Failed its test
Evidence: 1 against
Ruled out
The substitution changes with position in the line (a line-keyed or position-keyed…
Failed its test
Evidence: 1 against
Ruled out
Whatever the symbols are, the word sequence carries information the way a language's…
Failed its test
Evidence: 1 against
Ruled out
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Each word is a fragment of a verbose cipher
A known language under a homophonic cipher
Each word encodes one letter (Naibbe-type)
Each word is a set of letters written out in one fixed canonical order (an anagram cipher…
Latin or Italian under a chancery mixed key
One of 103 languages under simple substitution
One or two glyphs are nulls
The glyph stream has been transposed with a fixed period (columnar, route or decimation),…
The substitution changes with position in the line (a line-keyed or position-keyed…
Whatever the symbols are, the word sequence carries information the way a language's…
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