# Currier 1976: Some important new statistical findings

> Prescott H. Currier, 1976. 4 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The book builds on its A and B languages and on its observation that words change…

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# Some important new statistical findings

Prescott H. Currier, 1976. _New Research on the Voynich Manuscript: Proceedings of a Seminar, 30 November 1976_.

Prescott Currier's paper to the 1976 NSA seminar on the manuscript, reporting that the text falls into two statistical 'languages', A and B, that go with different hands, and that the line behaves as a unit.

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## What it's used for here

The book builds on its A and B languages and on its observation that words change form at the start and end of lines; the procedure-fingerprinting survey uses his count of six to eight hands.

## Cited by on this site 4 records

[The Voynich Manuscript](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript)

The mystery article

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[Reading Without a Key](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D8NJAWT22V4/reading-without-a-key)

The book, version 2.0

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[Toward a Reading of the Voynich Manuscript](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D8NJAN066JH/toward-a-reading-of-the-voynich-manuscript-lexical-anchors)

The March 2026 draft

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[1 methods surveys]

Encoding procedures

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## Cite it

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Currier, P. H. (1976). Some important new statistical findings. New Research on the Voynich Manuscript: Proceedings of a Seminar, 30 November 1976.
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