A possible generating algorithm of the Voynich manuscript

Torsten Timm, Andreas Schinner, 2020. Cryptologia 44(1): 1–19.

Uses network analysis of word similarity to argue that the Voynich text is meaningless, and proposes a simple self-citation procedure a medieval scribe could follow without tools. Text made this way reproduces several key statistics of the manuscript, including Zipf's laws.

Voynich ManuscriptArticledoi: 10.1080/01611194.2019.1596999Checked against the original0

What it's used for here

The book presents it as the auto-copying theory of chapter 9 and tests it as one of the six simulators in chapter 25.

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Cite it

Timm, T., & Schinner, A. (2020). A possible generating algorithm of the Voynich manuscript. Cryptologia, 44(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2019.1596999

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Timm, Torsten and Andreas Schinner. “A possible generating algorithm of the Voynich manuscript.” Cryptologia 44, no. 1 (2020): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2019.1596999.