Run · Voynich Manuscript

Naibbe as published: information of line position about the first and last glyph

Expected by construction; recorded because the line-edge layer would have to be added after encipherment (a copying or layout convention) for any Naibbe-type account to stand.

Fails, as it must: no step of the cipher depends on the line, so it has none of the manuscript's line-edge layer (S-007, 46 rules)Currier B: 0.133 / 0.062 / 0.264 vs Naibbe 0.001 / 0.001 / 0.001. Whole book: 0.112 / 0.056 / 0.198 vs 0.001 / 0.001 / 0.0010

Result

Run	Measured	Result	Against	Decision	Date
Run	MI(line position; first glyph) / MI(line position; last glyph) / JS divergence of line-initial first glyphs, bits	Currier B: 0.133 / 0.062 / 0.264 vs Naibbe 0.001 / 0.001 / 0.001. Whole book: 0.112 / 0.056 / 0.198 vs 0.001 / 0.001 / 0.001	Plain Latin in the same lines: 0.002 / 0.001 / 0.002	Fails, as it must: no step of the cipher depends on the line, so it has none of the manuscript's line-edge layer (S-007, 46 rules)

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, measure = layout_layer.layout_mi (lines of 3+ words) and battery line_initial_js, targets = ['Currier B', 'whole book']

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). Naibbe as published: information of line position about the first and last glyph [Run RUN0DC7QKDBE3GT]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/RUN0DC7QKDBE3GT

@misc{mysteriesdept_run0dc7qkdbe3gt,
  title     = {Naibbe as published: information of line position about the first and last glyph},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Run, catalog key RUN0DC7QKDBE3GT},
  url       = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/RUN0DC7QKDBE3GT}
}