Aside from this important information on the VMS.  This is me Stellar and I have been stable on medication from my bi-polar for 4 years now.  I wish the mods would forgive me and reinstate me back to Stellar.  I think my manic behavior got in the way of sensible conversation with the people here.  I have been on an injection of invega sustenna for 4 years now and my behavior is good.  Once again I am very sorry for anyone's feeling I hurt while having a manic episodes.  No manic behavior for 4 years now.



Please don't delete this information as it may relate to the Voynich.

Awhile back I put together how "Henry the 5th", could have been planned as part of the VMS.




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I'm looking for a summary of everything we know about the symbols in the book. How many there are, where do they appear, frequency, stuff like that. I know all that information exists, but I'm having trouble finding a single source that contains all of them

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It is well known that some symbols only appear at the end of words, the beginning, or followed or preceded by some specific symbols. This is often used to argue that voynichese can't be a real language because no language behaves this way, but what if these aren't different symbols? What if symbols change shape depending on where they are in the word?

This is something that happens in many real scripts, such as Arabic, Mongolian, Syriac and a few others. Letters have often three or four forms: initial, medial, final and sometimes they also have an isolated form. These shapes are often similar, but they can be quite different in a few cases. This is called "positional allography"

However the reason these scripts have this feature is because they are "cursive" in a way, they are designed so that people need to lift their pen as little as possible when writing, which required letters to "flow" into each other and thus change shape

The voynich script is not like this, so it wouldn't need to behave like this... But what if it does anyway?

What if the Author was exposed to Mongolian or Arabic or whatever and that inspired them to make a script in which letters changed shape depending on their position?

This would reduce the number of letters, but it could increase clarity. Also, we could look at letters that never appear at the end or beginning of words to look for the other shapes of those letters

Thanks for reading!

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How do you think? May the symbol which we transcribe as "a"  be a kind of ligature which is actually "ci"?
Do you think it's impossible, improbable, possible or sure? 

Notice that:
- there is a often a small hole in the botom of Voynichese "a", not like in our regular "a"
- the right side of "a" is slant, just like Voynichese "i"


Personally I think it is probable but we cannot be sure. It also doesn't change anything at the moment, currently reading "a" as "ci" doesn't give
us any advantage. But at some moment it could be useful.

I'm wondering if the manuscript finding its way into the hands of a collector 180-odd years after creation - presumably as part of a group of other, unrelated books, liking having changed hands multiple times - increases the probability of the manuscript being a hoax to make money. On the other hand, manuscripts changed hands by force all the time. People that tend to go to such lengths to conceal information tend to have a reason to believe said information is important and has a risk of being intercepted. The manuscript doesn't seem like it stayed with its original creators for very long, which in my mind increases the chances of it either having not been important to them, or them having had valid cause to worry that it would fall out of their hands.

While the creators could've all died and the manuscript sold off by a heir, I would think part of the point of putting so much money and effort into creating a high-quality manuscript of secret knowledge would be so that it could be preserved, for future generations of whatever group or family they were a part of.

This is my first post here, please let me know if this has already been discussed at length. 

I published a blog post today, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.in which I briefly detail that the zodiac section is depicting suggested agricultural occupations for each month, related to similar "Labors of the Months" artwork of the time, which explains why the zodiac name labels are generalized, and why Aries (March) labeled "April" and Taurus (April) labeled most likely "May", are depicted twice, possibly as the most important, or work heavy, time of year. I also note that the medieval calendar year started in March, the new year being the 25th, which is why Pisces appears first.    


Thank you for your thoughts on this. 
All the best,
Sherri Mastrangelo

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Is it possible that the reason that the Voynich script appears to have only 13 or so letters (when accounting for positional variation) is that multiple letters could use the same glyphs? This phenomenon can be found in early Arabic writing. In the Arabic script, there are many sets of letters which are only distinguished by the i'jam, small dots written above or below the letters. However, in early examples of the Arabic script, such as the Burmingham folios, only the rasm is present, and not the i'jam (or harakat). This leads to many sets of letters appearing identical in some or all positions, despite them making completely different sounds. This causes the script to appear to only have 15 distinct letters, despite actually the Arabic script actually having 28 letters.

Is it possible that the Voynich manuscript exhibits a similar phenomenon of multiple letters appearing identical in some or all positions, and thus actually has a larger alphabet than it appears to?

In most writings systems most characters represent one or more phonemes.  
Once I fully got my head around the idiosyncrasies of the Voynich language one of my first thoughts was that it could be that what are commonly taken to be words in fact are either individual phonemes or syllables and that the "letters" are describing qualities of the sound.  The idea would be something like Hangul if the characters were separated out or IPA if instead of a unique symbol you referenced the position on the chart for every phoneme (not literally either but that kind of idea).
This solves the limited number of glyphs issue because there are only so many different qualities a phoneme or syllable can have.
It solves the issue of certain glyphs only apearing at the beginning or ends of words.  There are certain properties that a sound can only have one of a few options for.
With this you would expect shorter "words" and you see that.
This hypothesis isn't perfect but it has alot of good sides.  Has anyone done any research in this vain?

My new video is up on YouTube! This time I was helped by Tavi, who did a lot of the heavy lifting on the script.

I wasn't planning to do anymore "why theorists are wrong" videos, but we just felt like this one was necessary. People on YouTube kept telling me the MS was solved (it's Turkish!) or asking about the Turkish solution video they saw. I had to make an answer. So here it is:



Tavi and I wrote it in a way that applies to many VM theories, pointing out common mistakes, strategies used by solvers etc, so it can be used as a reference when a new theory makes headlines.