# Timm 2020: A possible generating algorithm of the Voynich manuscript

> Torsten Timm, Andreas Schinner, 2020. 9 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The book presents it as the auto-copying theory of chapter 9 and tests…

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# 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 Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.1080/01611194.2019.1596999](https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2019.1596999)** Checked 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.

## Cited by on this site 9 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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[7 methods surveys]

Signal processing, cryptanalysis, mathematics, linguistics, frameworks of inquiry, inductive methods, encoding procedures

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## Cite it

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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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