[Other] Corpus Voynichianum: an open library of everything Voynich

[Gamba]

Hi! 

I'm new here, that's the copy of my first post in Library, but I learned later it's for the News category, hope you like it.

I compiled a database of all things Voynich that are possible to find in internet. Scientific papers, articles, books, newspapers, dissertations, blogs, sites, forums, podcasts and videos (extracted text from audio), experiments and data - everything that is open to public.

What's inside: over 2,000 scholarly papers, preprints and conference papers, about 90 of them theses and dissertations; 759 books; 2,251 newspaper and magazine pieces; 700 archival items such as letters and catalogues; over 60,000 posts from the forums and from the old Voynich mailing list (1991-2013); over 9,000 blog posts and web pages, plus 18,600 comments from Cipher Mysteries; 7,688 videos and podcasts, turned into text; 417 claimed solutions and experiments, with 1,062 pieces of code and data. It covers more than 60 languages and runs from Georg Baresch's 1639 letter to Athanasius Kircher to posts from 6 November 2026, the day before it went public.

Anything behind a paywall or still on sale is listed only with a short description and a link. Everything that can be freely found online was downloaded in full, so the whole collection can be read and checked not only by eye but also by AI agents, which can go through all of it at once and take the dull part of the research off our hands.

The purpose is to allow everyone to start new research knowing what was already done, what ideas were on different matters, what experiments explored which line. Here's the link - You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
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The work of searching the internet, deduplicating findings, primary annotations, speech to text etc was done by different AI models. Boring, repetitive job of building a database is most suited for robots.

Hope you like it and it's open source and non commercial and will always be.

Respect,
Gamba

P.S. TBH I think this is something that obviously has to exist and I hope this open database will expand and serve the whole community

[Rafal]

How do we use it? Does this database has some GUI, some frontend where I can browse the data?

Yeah I know I could learn it myself but I admit being a bit lazy 

[DG97EEB]

Hi! 

I'm new here, that's the copy of my first post in Library, but I learned later it's for the News category, hope you like it.

I compiled a database of all things Voynich that are possible to find in internet. Scientific papers, articles, books, newspapers, dissertations, blogs, sites, forums, podcasts and videos (extracted text from audio), experiments and data - everything that is open to public.

What's inside: over 2,000 scholarly papers, preprints and conference papers, about 90 of them theses and dissertations; 759 books; 2,251 newspaper and magazine pieces; 700 archival items such as letters and catalogues; over 60,000 posts from the forums and from the old Voynich mailing list (1991-2013); over 9,000 blog posts and web pages, plus 18,600 comments from Cipher Mysteries; 7,688 videos and podcasts, turned into text; 417 claimed solutions and experiments, with 1,062 pieces of code and data. It covers more than 60 languages and runs from Georg Baresch's 1639 letter to Athanasius Kircher to posts from 6 November 2026, the day before it went public.

Anything behind a paywall or still on sale is listed only with a short description and a link. Everything that can be freely found online was downloaded in full, so the whole collection can be read and checked not only by eye but also by AI agents, which can go through all of it at once and take the dull part of the research off our hands.

The purpose is to allow everyone to start new research knowing what was already done, what ideas were on different matters, what experiments explored which line. Here's the link - You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
github - You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

The work of searching the internet, deduplicating findings, primary annotations, speech to text etc was done by different AI models. Boring, repetitive job of building a database is most suited for robots.

Hope you like it and it's open source and non commercial and will always be.

Respect,
Gamba

P.S. TBH I think this is something that obviously has to exist and I hope this open database will expand and serve the whole community

It does exist

I've been selective in what I put in it though. I've avoided a broad trawl and focussed only on reputable sources and papers though.

[Rafal]

It does exist

Indeed   

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I'd like to be precise and notice that it's not a classic database with tables, records and SQL queries that you can inspect. 
For me it's actually a kind of blackbox where you don't know what's exactly inside.
But it knows Voynich lore and talks about it with you when you ask.

[DG97EEB]

It does exist

Indeed   

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

I'd like to be precise and notice that it's not a classic database with tables, records and SQL queries that you can inspect. 
For me it's actually a kind of blackbox where you don't know what's exactly inside.
But it knows Voynich lore and talks about it with you when you ask.

It's a Supabase database that uses RAG with a call to a small Gemini model

The sources are also available on the site

[Gamba]

Three ways, from the easiest:

1. Browse and filter right in your browser, nothing to install (it takes about 30 seconds to load). You can filter any column, for example title contains "Baresch", and group by year or by type:
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2. The Hugging Face page shows the same catalogue as a table you can scroll and sort:
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3. The full texts (about 120,000 of them) are on Hugging Face and Zenodo. That is too much to read by hand, so the best way is to give them to an AI assistant and ask questions in plain words.

Tell me what would make it easier for you to use, and I will work on that.

How do we use it? Does this database has some GUI, some frontend where I can browse the data?

Yeah I know I could learn it myself but I admit being a bit lazy 

[nablator]

Interesting collection.

I see lots of things that are not really relevant... For example:
- Cinq traités d'alchimie des plus grands philosophes by Albert Poisson has a French translation of the Speculum Alchemiae by pseudo-Bacon.
- Ramon Lull: a biography by Edgar Allison Peers

I am not complaining, I am very interested in medieval alchemy.

[Gamba]

Hi, 

I included the background works that are historically connected to the Voynich manuscript - 

The Roger Bacon attribution brings to pseudo-Bacon alchemy, and combinatorics and cifer brings to Lull 

Those are background works and they should be easily filtered out, now they are there first because of date of the publication 

Will clearly mark this in version 1.1 and will be glad to implement any other critique. 

Thank you for your help! 

Interesting collection.

I see lots of things that are not really relevant... For example:
- Cinq traités d'alchimie des plus grands philosophes by Albert Poisson has a French translation of the Speculum Alchemiae by pseudo-Bacon.
- Ramon Lull: a biography by Edgar Allison Peers

I am not complaining, I am very interested in medieval alchemy.