Research session · Voynich Manuscript

Session 2: The whole manuscript, from images

The first session's readings extended to the whole book: four more zodiac names, a seven-planet pharmacy (Merc-, Satur-, Iupit-, Ven-, Sol-, Lun-), a three-part botanical entry formula, Currier's A and B as two registers, an almanac "prediction confirmed", index-of-coincidence figures, and two or three scribal hands.

Session 2Mar 2026Draft0

What it concluded

Withdrawn in session 5: the strings and the statistics had not been computed from any transliteration.

Answers proposed 3

Currier A and B are two registers of one language, not two languages or dialects.

H-V01-REGISTERS

ANS

Pharmacy labels carry planet roots

H-V01-PLANETS

ANS

The zodiac names recur as section headers in the recipe section (ff. 103-116), confirming…

H-V01-ALMANAC

ANS

Methods used 1

Language-model description of folio images

M-V01-IMG

MTH

Datasets used 1

Twelve low-resolution folio images used by the v0.1 draft

D-V01-IMAGES

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Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). Session 2: The whole manuscript, from images [Research session SES08H6PV2021JK]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/SES08H6PV2021JK

@misc{mysteriesdept_ses08h6pv2021jk,
  title     = {Session 2: The whole manuscript, from images},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Research session, catalog key SES08H6PV2021JK},
  url       = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/SES08H6PV2021JK}
}