# Parisel 2025: Directionality of the Voynich Script

> Christophe Parisel, 2025. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The surveys cite it as prior work on reading direction and, with its 2026 sequel and…

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# Directionality of the Voynich Script

Christophe Parisel, 2025. _arXiv_.

An arXiv preprint that tests the reading direction of the Voynich script by comparing n-gram perplexity read forwards and backwards.

**Voynich Manuscript** PreprintChecked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The surveys cite it as prior work on reading direction and, with its 2026 sequel and Rozanova and Temerev, as the current work on what the text's units are.

## Cited by on this site 3 records

[3 methods surveys]

Signal processing, linguistics, inductive methods

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## Cite it

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Parisel, C. (2025). Directionality of the Voynich Script. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10573
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