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Naibbe as published: page locality, form-function coupling and edge-glyph dependency

Page locality is the sharpest discriminator: the manuscript keeps the topical clustering a real plaintext has, and a letter-level homophonic cipher of that same plaintext erases it. The same was found for the Tranchedino-type mixed keys (E-024).

Fails (z 27, 12, 52, 297 on B). The plaintext has topical page structure (plain Latin locality 7.9, the manuscript 8.9); after Naibbe encipherment almost none survives (1.1), because card-drawn homophones and random respacing break every recurrence of a plaintext wordCurrier B: locality 8.93 vs 1.11; coupling 0.144 vs 0.014; near-twins 0.263 vs 0.142; edge MI 0.265 vs 0.010. Whole book: 16.2 vs 1.7; 0.149 vs 0.019; 0.262 vs 0.140; 0.212 vs 0.0080

Result

Run	Measured	Result	Against	Decision	Date
Run	Adjacent-page vocabulary z / Spearman(form, context) / near-twin rate within 10 words / MI last glyph to next first glyph (bits)	Currier B: locality 8.93 vs 1.11; coupling 0.144 vs 0.014; near-twins 0.263 vs 0.142; edge MI 0.265 vs 0.010. Whole book: 16.2 vs 1.7; 0.149 vs 0.019; 0.262 vs 0.140; 0.212 vs 0.008	Plain Latin of the genres in the same lines (Currier B): locality 7.89, coupling 0.036, near-twins 0.056, edge MI 0.049	Fails (z 27, 12, 52, 297 on B). The plaintext has topical page structure (plain Latin locality 7.9, the manuscript 8.9); after Naibbe encipherment almost none survives (1.1), because card-drawn homophones and random respacing break every recurrence of a plaintext word

What it used and found

Naibbe cipher simulation from the published tables

Method

MTH

Latin genre texts

Dataset

DAT

Naibbe cipher tables and example plaintexts (greshko/naibbe-cipher, commit 719f2f4c)

Dataset

DAT

ZL3b transcription

Dataset

DAT

Latin or Italian under the Naibbe cipher

Answer it tests

ANS

Parameters

corpora = 30, targets = ['Currier B', 'whole book'], plaintext = Latin by section

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). Naibbe as published: page locality, form-function coupling and edge-glyph dependency [Run RUN0DC7QJM3KFG8]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/RUN0DC7QJM3KFG8

@misc{mysteriesdept_run0dc7qjm3kfg8,
  title     = {Naibbe as published: page locality, form-function coupling and edge-glyph dependency},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Run, catalog key RUN0DC7QJM3KFG8},
  url       = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/RUN0DC7QJM3KFG8}
}