I've written a new blog post about a serious problem with the usually assumed provenance of the "Letters". It lies in the differential between what would have been "mysterious" and "unknown" to the men of the 17th century letters... Baresch, Marci, Moretus, Kinner, and Kircher... and what was still mysterious and unknown to scholars in 1912, when the Voynich was first announced to the world.

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Some years ago I suggested that the three words in line 7 of 116r "otedy totol rotydyotydy" should be read as the Latin words "obitus boba robustus", which I translated as "You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.".
I'm not an expert in Latin, so I'm trying to learn from the manuscript.

If you have any knowledge of Latin, what do you think? Can this reading be made more accurate? Should we say robustis instead?

P.S. I don't claim that the whole text is written in Latin.

Most common starting glyphs on paragraphs are k and f. I consider that all the family of k is the same glyph, same for the family of f.
In my opinion both of them at starting of a paragraph are nulls in term of forming a monogram/bigram/trigram. 
One option is that they indicate the language or the written text.
Is it possible a text analisys of the glyhs of paragraphs starting  with k (excluding the starting k), then a text analisys of the glyhs of paragraphs starting with f (excluding the starting f)? Better if the analisys are separated by scribes.
And then chek if there are signifitative differencies between both of them.

Hello everyone!
I've just added a new page, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., to my Reading Voynich blog, where I've decided to collect all the words I've looked at up to now with my translation suggestions.
Happy reading!

Bigrams across uncertain spaces.
All errors are mine and there probably are some.

Extract text from ZL_ivtff_2a using IVTT: from Windows cmdline "ivtt -x7 -s0 -h0 ZL_ivtff_2a.txt ZL2adot-comma.txt"
text file contains : pure text, keep commas and dots, also keeps '?', '*' and @123; notation

Find all the commas denoting uncertain spaces, get EVA-character from either side of the comma, concatenate to form bigram  i.e ('X,Y' = 'XY')
Find all the dots denoting certain spaces, get EVA-character from either side of the comma, concatenate to form bigram  i.e ('X.Y' = 'XY')

Count them, Rank them, Simple stat them:
abs(Percentage divide) =
percentage occurrence of Comma-bigram, percentage occurrence of Dot-bigram, take which ever number is higher and divide by the lower

abs(Rank Comma - Rank Dot) =
Absolute value of the Comma bigram rank subtracted from the Dot bigram rank

Did the 'percent divide' and 'rank subtract' because it just makes it easier to spot the differences and provides a simple way to compare them.
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Through a Glass Darkly: The Visual Culture of Alchemy

Location and Time

Bowen Hall, PRISM, Princeton University
May 26 – 28, 2022

Conference

The pre-modern science and art of alchemy is famous for its vivid, often bizarre imagery. Alchemical images often represent ingredients and processes allegorically, suggesting analogies with other aspects of creation: from human generation and reproduction to the motion of heavenly bodies. Alchemists also used descriptive and diagrammatic images to convey practical and philosophical information about their art. Such imagery might catch the eye of readers and patrons, or present visual arguments for ideas about nature and artifice. Images also changed over time, as new audiences sought to decipher and adapt earlier depictions—whether reflecting new artistic trends, or revealing changing attitudes towards nature, matter, and antiquity.

This conference explores the visual language of alchemy within the broader cultural and intellectual context of pre-modern Europe. The conference accompanies the Princeton University Library exhibition “Through a Glass Darkly: Alchemy and the Ripley Scrolls, 1400–1700,” open in the Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery until July 17, 2022.

Speakers Include:

Donna Bilak (NYU Gallatin)
Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London)
Leah DeVun (Rutgers University)
Marina Escolano-Poveda (University of Liverpool)
Peter J. Forshaw (University of Amsterdam)
Marlis Hinckley (Johns Hopkins University)
Janna Israel (Princeton University Museum of Art)
Didier Kahn (CNRS, Paris)
Sharifa Lookman (Princeton University)
William R. Newman (Indiana University Bloomington)
Lawrence M. Principe (Johns Hopkins University)
Jennifer M. Rampling (Princeton University)
Melissa Reynolds (Princeton University Society of Fellows)
Sergei Zotov (University of Warwick)

Organizers and Sponsors

The event is hosted by the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM), which houses some of the world’s most sophisticated imaging technology: a modern analogue for alchemists’ attempts to visualize the interior of matter.

Sponsored by the Office of the Dean for Innovation, the Princeton Humanities Council, and the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC).

Organized by Jennifer M. Rampling (Princeton University).

I look for poliphonyc ciphers in the times of the VM, century up and down, with the following caracterictis: 
Preferably in latin and/or spanish.
Polyphonic candidates: Q(U)-CA-G(U),   L-I,   S-X,   V-B (V used as in Latin so B can be a V-U),   ET-I (ampersand), ...
I would appreciate any other suggestion for polyphonics.

These "manuscript pages" were created by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. on the basis of the prompts:

["A page from the Voynich manuscript", "ancient manuscript"]

   
   
   

The following animated gif shows some of the processing steps. If I understand correctly, Disco Diffusion starts from pure noise; each step removes some noise, generating a better fit for the verbal prompt. The creation of a language/image mapping (the method used here is called CLIP, described in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) is possible thanks to the millions of images with a corresponding text that are available on the internet.

   

f3r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
   
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You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f103r
   
The structure of the plant of the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is quite similar to the f103r. The second one is most red, first one is most green, part red, more natural colors for a plant.
 The 4 points leaves of the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and the strange way how they are united, are like the circles with 4 points that have text inside and the way the are united. Both of them have a similiar structure.

The separate words ain and dain are not among the most frequent: less than a hundred for ain and two hundred for dain.
I propose to read them in Greek as ειν and τειν:
- ειν = εν - in;
- ειν - ου - where;
- ειν a (rare?) form of ειναι - inf. of ειμι - to be ;
- τειν - dative of singular pronoun συ - you, thou.

I don't know if statistics alone, without full or partial translation, can confirm or refute this reading.