# Session 5: Re-analysis from the transliteration; book v1.0 > The project was found to hold no machine-readable text: the spring findings were a language model's descriptions of images. Every claim was tested… Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/sessions/SES0D8B8QS022BX/session-5-re-analysis-from-the-transliteration-book-v1-0 Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Voynich Manuscript](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript)Research session Research session · Voynich Manuscript # Session 5: Re-analysis from the transliteration; book v1.0 The project was found to hold no machine-readable text: the spring findings were a language model's descriptions of images. Every claim was tested against the ZL3b, IT2a and CD2a transliterations, and none of the lexical readings exists in the manuscript. The earlier draft was archived. Structure, statistics, slot grammar, line effects, the A/B difference, labels, repetition and one-to-one decipherment were rebuilt from the data, with controls, and the book was written again from them: Reading Without a Key, v1.0. Session **5** 22 Oct 2026Describe0 ## What it left open - {'text': "Kyle's read-through and edits"} - {'text': 'Higher-resolution plates for print'} - {'text': "Keep Appendix D's account of the earlier draft?"} - {'text': 'Send chapter 4 to Davis and Layfield for comment?'} ## Questions raised 17 [Are there records outside the text?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JFZYEG65Q4/are-there-records-outside-the-text) Q-006 QST [Do earlier readings survive the evidence?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JGGDSG1RR0/do-earlier-readings-survive-the-evidence) Q-042 QST [How do text and pictures relate?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JGBVA05HF4/how-do-text-and-pictures-relate) Q-032 QST [How many scribes wrote it?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JFZ1503NFG/how-many-scribes-wrote-it) Q-004 QST [How was the text produced on the page?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JG6BH02GE7/how-was-the-text-produced-on-the-page) Q-020 QST [Is it a constructed or notational language?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JG3KMG29DW/is-it-a-constructed-or-notational-language) Q-014 QST [Is it a natural language?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JG27P80HMJ/is-it-a-natural-language) Q-011 QST [Is it meaningless text from a procedure?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JG34ZR1MPK/is-it-meaningless-text-from-a-procedure) Q-013 QST [What did the line and page add?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JG78TG4W5X/what-did-the-line-and-page-add) Q-022 QST [What do the illustrations show?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JGBCN851BR/what-do-the-illustrations-show) Q-031 QST [What is the book about?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JGAY0G20KQ/what-is-the-book-about) Q-030 QST [What is the object, and who made it?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JFXN6R2VQ6/what-is-the-object-and-who-made-it) Q-001 QST [What kind of text is it?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JG1S1G6D9T/what-kind-of-text-is-it) Q-010 QST [What order were the leaves in?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JFYJG87ZFD/what-order-were-the-leaves-in) Q-003 QST [When was the parchment made?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JFY3VG0S0J/when-was-the-parchment-made) Q-002 QST [Where was it made, and in what milieu?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JFZFSR4N4A/where-was-it-made-and-in-what-milieu) Q-005 QST [Who would have made and used it?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JGC9YR02C0/who-would-have-made-and-used-it) Q-033 QST ## Answers taken up again 8 [A gallows glyph (t/k, Currier P/F) opens each entry as a discourse particle.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/answers/ANS08JGB5AW71JF/a-gallows-glyph-t-k-currier-p-f-opens-each-entry-as-a) H-V01-ENTRY-PARTICLE ANS [Currier A and B are two registers of one language, not two languages or dialects.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/answers/ANS08JGB5JP7JTC/currier-a-and-b-are-two-registers-of-one-language-not-two) H-V01-REGISTERS ANS [Pharmacy labels carry planet roots](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/answers/ANS08JGB4KE0JFS/pharmacy-labels-carry-planet-roots) H-V01-PLANETS ANS [The 180-220 labelled bathers of ff. 80-84 are the 360 degrees or decans of a zodiacal…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/answers/ANS08JGB62A6HFS/the-180-220-labelled-bathers-of-ff-80-84-are-the-360-degrees) H-V01-DECANS ANS [The rosette fold-out is a six-zone world map in al-Idrisi's climate tradition.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/answers/ANS08JGB5TG6NTV/the-rosette-fold-out-is-a-six-zone-world-map-in-al-idrisis) H-V01-ROSETTE-IDRISI ANS [The zodiac names recur as section headers in the recipe section (ff. 103-116), confirming…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/answers/ANS08JGB4V80K6K/the-zodiac-names-recur-as-section-headers-in-the-recipe) H-V01-ALMANAC ANS [Zodiac labels spell the names of the signs](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/answers/ANS08JGB4BM2SMD/zodiac-labels-spell-the-names-of-the-signs) H-V01-ZODIAC-NAMES ANS [qo- (Currier 4o) is a definite article or nominal prefix.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/answers/ANS08JGB5324BA4/qo-currier-4o-is-a-definite-article-or-nominal-prefix) H-V01-ARTICLE ANS ## Evidence found 18 [102 of an original 116 leaves survive, in 18 quires](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDHET5NBC/102-of-an-original-116-leaves-survive-in-18-quires) F-002 EVD [Adjacent identical and near-identical words are common](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDKN465TE/adjacent-identical-and-near-identical-words-are-common) F-011 EVD [Bather labels in the biological section number 64 tokens.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDTZG6WQ9/bather-labels-in-the-biological-section-number-64-tokens) F-041 EVD [Calfskin parchment, radiocarbon-dated 1404–1438](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDH702FH0/calfskin-parchment-radiocarbon-dated-14041438) F-001 EVD [Currier A and B differ in vocabulary (25 % of tokens in skewed words) and are confounded…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDVF40968/currier-a-and-b-differ-in-vocabulary-25-of-tokens-in-skewed) F-043 EVD [Documented ownership begins in Prague, c. 1610](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDJ680V83/documented-ownership-begins-in-prague-c-1610) F-005 EVD [Each glyph has a fixed place in the word](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDJE21VNB/each-glyph-has-a-fixed-place-in-the-word) F-006 EVD [Five scribes wrote the text](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDHPM3VVE/five-scribes-wrote-the-text) F-003 EVD [Glyph entropy is lower than in any of 103 languages](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDKDA0QEB/glyph-entropy-is-lower-than-in-any-of-103-languages) F-010 EVD [Labels differ from running text: under 3 % q-initial against 15.5 %, over half o-initial.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDK5G5D5Z/labels-differ-from-running-text-under-3-q-initial-against-15) F-009 EVD [None of the v0.1 readings occurs in any transliteration](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDV7A1Y6Q/none-of-the-v0-1-readings-occurs-in-any-transliteration) F-042 EVD [The illustrations form a medical and natural-philosophical compendium: herbal, zodiac…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDT8245K0/the-illustrations-form-a-medical-and-natural-philosophical) F-038 EVD [The leaves are not in their maker's order](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDHYE7WJP/the-leaves-are-not-in-their-makers-order) F-004 EVD [The line is a unit: gallows open lines, -m closes them](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDJXP1XTB/the-line-is-a-unit-gallows-open-lines-m-closes-them) F-008 EVD [The rosette fold-out has nine circles.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDTQP1NKD/the-rosette-fold-out-has-nine-circles) F-040 EVD [Vocabulary clusters by section, not by scribe](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDKWY3R6B/vocabulary-clusters-by-section-not-by-scribe) F-012 EVD [Words are of nearly uniform length (mean 5.1 EVA letters, s.d. 1.9).](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDJNW3WT8/words-are-of-nearly-uniform-length-mean-5-1-eva-letters-s-d) F-007 EVD [Zodiac labels drift from ot- to ok- across the cycle but carry no sign-specific marker;…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDTFW4MSC/zodiac-labels-drift-from-ot-to-ok-across-the-cycle-but-carry) F-039 EVD ## Methods used 2 [Codex structure and statistics (entropy, Zipf, word length, slot grammar, line effects, A/B keyness, labels)](https://mysteriesdept.com/methods/MTH08JFX6ST70NE/codex-structure-and-statistics-entropy-zipf-word-length-slot) M-A1 MTH [One-to-one substitution search with controls; vowel-less; near-twin profile](https://mysteriesdept.com/methods/MTH08JFX71M4KD3/one-to-one-substitution-search-with-controls-vowel-less-near) M-A9 MTH ## What it produced 2 [Assessment of prior findings against the transcription](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D8NJB4M65M7/assessment-of-prior-findings-against-the-transcription) SRC [Reading Without a Key](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D8NJAWT22V4/reading-without-a-key) SRC ## Cite it ``` Mysteries Department. (2026). Session 5: Re-analysis from the transliteration; book v1.0 [Research session SES0D8B8QS022BX]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/SES0D8B8QS022BX ``` Key **SES** 0D8B8QS022BX Kind Research session Number 5 Date 22 Oct 2026 Researchers apollo, Claude (Anthropic) Version 2 Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) The record Every record is open data. Take this one as JSON, with its links and its history. [JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/api/v1/records/SES0D8B8QS022BX)