Run · Voynich Manuscript

T38 grid: word-to-word glyph dependency and near-twins, every variant, as written and without the first glyph

Shuffling the manuscript's own words removes most of its edge dependency, so it lives in word order (how one word ends predicts how the next begins), not in the vocabulary, and removing first glyphs leaves most of it. In Naibbe each word is an independent cipher unit, so nothing links the end of one to the start of the next. Near-twins, one-glyph variants close together, are partly vocabulary and partly local.

Not supported: no variant in any section comes within the spread on either statisticedge MI: manuscript 0.19-0.32 by section, the 72 variants 0.01-0.10; on bodies 0.11-0.27 against 0.01-0.12. twin10: manuscript 0.24-0.33, variants 0.13-0.190

Result

Run	Measured	Result	Against	Decision	Date
Run	MI between a word's last glyph and the next word's first (edge MI, bits); share of words with a one-glyph variant within the next 10 words (twin10); edge MI on word bodies	edge MI: manuscript 0.19-0.32 by section, the 72 variants 0.01-0.10; on bodies 0.11-0.27 against 0.01-0.12. twin10: manuscript 0.24-0.33, variants 0.13-0.19	The section's own words shuffled across its pages: edge MI 0.02-0.08, twin10 0.18-0.27	Not supported: no variant in any section comes within the spread on either statistic

What it used and found

Naibbe-family hyper-simulation, section by section

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 = 10, sections = 6, variants = 72

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). T38 grid: word-to-word glyph dependency and near-twins, every variant, as written and without the first glyph [Run RUN0DC8YFNJRFFC]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/RUN0DC8YFNJRFFC

@misc{mysteriesdept_run0dc8yfnjrffc,
  title     = {T38 grid: word-to-word glyph dependency and near-twins, every variant, as written and without the first glyph},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Run, catalog key RUN0DC8YFNJRFFC},
  url       = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/RUN0DC8YFNJRFFC}
}