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How the Voynich Manuscript Was Created

Torsten Timm, 2014.

A long arXiv paper arguing that the Voynich text was produced by copying words already written and altering them slightly, rather than by encoding a message.

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What it's used for here

The book uses it for the self-copying procedure that is one of the six simulators tested in chapter 25, and the methods surveys treat it as the origin of the self-citation hypothesis.

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Timm, T. (2014). How the Voynich Manuscript Was Created.
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