Some letters aren't letters

[Sam G]

The labels obviously can't be verbosely encoded.  There's no way around this.

Here's an example of a herbal page with labels:

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The labels, consisting of three Greek letters, are in fact numbers.
The labels we see in the Voynich MS could be verbosely encoded numbers.

And the rest of the text would then be... more numbers?