Hello everyone,

My name is Mauro Landetcheverry, an independent researcher from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I am working on a functional and grammatical model of the Voynich Manuscript that treats it as a controlled artificial language encoding procedures rather than lexical meaning.

The approach emphasizes grammar, repetition patterns, and parser-style validation across folios and sections. I am particularly interested in feedback, criticism, and stress-testing of the model.

I look forward to contributing and learning from the community.

Best regards,
Mauro
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  Voynich articulo.docx (Size: 21.36 KB / Downloads: 7) Hello everyone,

My name is Mauro Landetcheverry, an independent researcher from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I am working on a functional and grammatical model of the Voynich Manuscript that treats it as a controlled artificial language encoding procedures rather than lexical meaning.

The approach emphasizes grammar, repetition patterns, and parser-style validation across folios and sections. I am particularly interested in feedback, criticism, and stress-testing of the model.

I look forward to contributing and learning from the community.

Best regards,
Mauro

Francesco di Giorgio Martini was an Italian renaissance engineer, who continued Tacolla's work on water pipes and pumps. His Sketchbook from the second half of the 15th century features some interesting designs.

f148v:

   

f96r:

   

f132r:

   

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f18r:

   

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Link to the MS: MSS Urb. Lat. 1757, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

This video is the first time I have encountered this YouTuber, whose channel seems to be focused on the history of and inspirations behind Tolkien, science fiction, and fantasy writ large. As a one-video overview on the manuscript itself and all the various hypotheses, she does an excellent job.

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We often look for examples of swallowtail merlons in manuscript illustrations. But what if we could find more in other forms of art? In this thread, I propose to look for Ghibelline-style merlons in medieval tapestries. I'll begin with a few examples, depicting the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.:

   

   

This is from the early 1500s though. The tapestry is called The Sortie of the Besieged Imperial Troops from Pavia, and the Rout of the Swiss Guard.

Interstingly, Pavia was a fortified city with a circular wall around it with swallowtail merlons all around.

What it says on the tin!

Three things:

1. I know you don't know. I don't know. None of us know. But if you had to put down one number, not a range, what would it be?
   
2. The threshold for "common" is up to you.
   
3. Unique means they aren't variants of each other. I think it's pretty common to take n to be a final form of i, and so that would be one letter, not two. Ligatures don't count as a new letter, either.
   

Theory 

My speculation is that the recipes section You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. may be a multilingual glossary.  Each subsection (assumed as words beginning with p) would then start by listing the different ways the object is pronounced, with both dialectal differences and language differences. The repeated words -such as "okedy okeedy"- would be similar to eachother because they represent a homophonic representation of the different ways that people call the same object.

An example of what I mean in english is something like this: (written with vowels in IPA to signify my attempt at some different dialects): 

Bellis Perennis: Also Deɪzi, Deɪzɪ, Dɛɪzi, also Deese or Deezɛ, rarely called Deɪz aɪs, is found in...
(Bellis Perennis: Also "day-zee", "day-ziih", "dayy-zee", also "Deh-seh" or "Deh-ze", rarely called "Dayz eyes", is found in...)

Malus domestica: Pomme, Poma, also Apfel, Appel, sometimes Malum or mala, is found in....

How this fits with what's known about the VMS

Use Case
The use case for such a glossary is quite straightforward. The author wanted themself -or anyone who could understand the script- to be able to know the different names that people have for various things. If they lived in a fairly multicultural area, or an area with frequent through-traffic, having a knowledge of how certain things are called would be especially useful. I imagine there would be a LOT of overlapping names too (especially with plants and herbs), with one culture differentiating between two similar things where another doesn't. 

Such a place could be somewhere like along the trading routes that ran between italy and western europe, with frequent travellers of various tongues. If the author wanted to buy, sell, acquire or find a specific plant for use, knowing that some people say "day-zee" and some say "Deh-Seh" or some people say "pomme" and others "Poma" is probably very useful. 

Lower quality parchment/drawing/decoration
If the document was intended to be used, perhaps day to day, outside in the rain, during travels, during preperation of materials or other activities, as opposed to only read in an academic context, it makes sense to use a slightly less expensive material for this. It also could be a reason for the lower quality drawings and colouring. Why waste time making a perfectly decorated manual if theres a good chance it will smudge, or be ruined during the intended use?


I thought I would use this thread to discuss the merits of this theory (which i'm sure is not unique of course) but also to post some things that i've noticed that led me to it. The first of which is a re-transcribing of some of the first lines of subsections using a different alphabet, which i will post immediately under this post.

Hello,

I am able to prove any part of the Voynich manuscript as a literal and accurate translation of 1 and 2 Enoch. I am attaching a sample.

Attached Files

  The Voynich Manuscript_Revealing the Contents_previews_2026_Optimized.pdf (Size: 1.94 MB / Downloads: 172)

Hi everyone,
I’ve been studying the manuscript from a human perspective. My theory is that this isn't a complex military code, but a phonetic guide for oral transmission from parents to children.
Key points of my hypothesis:

• The "8" symbol: I believe it represents a polarity marker (YES/NO), used as a quick visual cue for a child's behavior or safety.
  
• Repetitions: These are not errors. They represent the musical rhythm of a voice (like a lullaby or a mantra) to help the child memorize survival advice.
  
• Initial glyphs: They mark the beginning of a "lesson" or a song.