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Comprehensive Site Map: voynich.nu

An independently compiled inventory of all pages and files found on RenΓ© Zandbergen's Voynich Manuscript research site.

Compiled August 01, 2026 · 223 pages/files catalogued across 13 categories · Not an official voynich.nu resource

πŸ“– Introduction & Overview 1 pages

Executive summary of the manuscript and a guided tour of how the site itself is organized.

πŸ“œ Manuscript Description 3 pages

Physical codex description: parchment, quires, foliation, missing folios, Petersen numbering, quire marks, and binding.
Visual collation diagrams showing the foldout structure of every quire.
Deep dive on the binding/cover history and the pencilled inside-cover annotations left by four post-1912 owners.

🎨 Illustrations 4 pages

Section-by-section breakdown (herbal, astronomical, cosmological, zodiac, biological, pharmaceutical, recipes) with comparison images from other manuscripts.
Gheuens/Rapaport criteria for classifying Herbal-A vs Herbal-B pages, plus a comparison of the f69r winds diagram.
Early plant-identification attempts by O'Neill and Holm, drawing on Petersen's transcription and Ethel Voynich's notebooks.
Describes the Helios miniature in this 9th-century Ptolemy manuscript, proposed as a stylistic precedent for the zodiac nymphs.

πŸ›οΈ Origin & History 42 pages

Creation date via carbon dating, materials, production order, collation, missing folios, and page-order reconstruction.
Provenance chain from Rudolf II through Tepenec, Barschius, Marci, Kircher, the Collegium Romanum, and Wilfrid Voynich.
Deep dive on folio/quire numbering, evidence of page-order disturbance, and a tentative production reconstruction.
Details of the 2009 University of Arizona carbon-14 dating result (1404-1438, 95% probability).
Debunks the John Dee/Rudolf II legend and discusses Marci's scribe and Voynich's booksellers.
Short biographies of Rauwolf, Widemann, Rudolf II, Tepenec, Mnisovsky, Barschius, Marci, Kircher, Strickland, and W.M. Voynich.
Inventory of primary and secondary archival repositories worldwide holding manuscript-related material.
Transcriptions and analysis of the 1639-1667 Kircher correspondence chain.
Chronological compilation of primary-source quotations relevant to the manuscript's history.
Analysis of the 1607 Kunstkammer catalogue β€” the manuscript cannot be positively identified within it.
Traces the ex libris mark of Tepenec (Sinapius) across five known books and manuscripts.
Background on Jesuit institutions and archives between 1665 and 1912.
Investigates, and largely disproves, the popular 'Villa Mondragone discovery' story.
Reconstructed list of roughly 20-30 manuscripts, including the Voynich MS, acquired from the Collegio Romano.
Rebuttal of the theory that Voynich himself forged the manuscript.
Traces a companion Aristotle manuscript, split up and later reunited across three US libraries.
Traces a Kunstkammer inventory entry to Vatican Reg.Lat.124 / Paris Arsenal 472.
1921 Voynich-Klicman correspondence regarding Tepenec, alias 'Dr. Raphael'.
Documentary evidence establishing 'Wilfrid' as his correct adopted first name.
Mines Greene-Berenson correspondence for evidence of Voynich's 1911-1916 sales activity.
Draft supplement (Jan 2026) to the Collegio Romano acquisitions page, detailing individual manuscripts J01-J38.
Detailed minutes of an informal researcher meeting attended by Cotton, Landini, Reeds, Zandbergen, and others.
Frameset entry point to Xavier Ceccaldi's standalone mini-site on Voynich's biography.
Alternate entry point into the same Xavier Ceccaldi mini-site.
Covers Voynich's 1890-1897 London years, his Russian revolutionary circles, and his meeting with Ethel Boole.
A personal anecdote from the son of a Philadelphia bookseller who knew Voynich.
Details of Voynich's bookselling catalogue No. 24, with notes on catalogues 1-9.
Transcribed newspaper coverage of the Art Institute of Chicago exhibition.
Extracts from J.W. Thompson's 1931 in-memoriam of Wilfrid Voynich.
Source-critical analysis arguing the manuscript originated in the Collegio Romano library.
Genealogical case study built around the figure of 'Father Strickland'.
Argues how the manuscripts physically moved, citing an 1873 Jesuit-suppression letter.
Navigation frame component listing links within the Ceccaldi mini-site.
Blank navigation frame component used by the Ceccaldi mini-site's frameset layout.
Rafal Prinke's chronological ownership chart with links to his individual research sub-pages.
Detailed rebuttal of the Dee/Rudolf sale legend, footnoted with 18 primary sources.
Survey of Czech manuscript catalogues; a 1493 manuscript signed by Tepenec links him to the Voynich MS.
Index of scanned paleographic comparison images used in Prinke's research.
Short stub page with portrait images and a coded-message image.
Ellis Island immigration-record research correcting the standard biographical timeline.
Compares the manuscript's foliation digit style to Dee's 1583 catalogue and period Polish manuscripts.
Caption page for a comparison image relating to Mnisovsky.

πŸ” Solvers, Research History & Claims 47 pages

Narrative history of research from Barschius and Kircher through Newbold, Friedman, Currier, Stolfi, Rugg, and Pelling.
Detailed look at Panofsky's 1931-1954 opinions and a reconstruction of Wilfrid Voynich's own research.
Corrects commonly repeated errors about the manuscript, including a rebuttal of a circulated 'Voynich myths' list.
A growing, informal list of small historical anecdotes about the manuscript.
Critical analysis debunking the viral claim that AI decoded the manuscript as anagrammed Hebrew.
Zandbergen's personal opinions on proposed solutions, origin theories, and an extensive FAQ for would-be decipherers.
Landing page for the 11 May 2012 Villa Mondragone centenary conference.
Venue, programme summary, and registration/lodging information for the 2012 conference.
Conference-adjacent lodging options: Villa Grazioli, Flora, Villa Vecchia, Colonna, and others.
Access information for Frascati and Rome airports and train connections.
Email sign-up procedure for the 2012 conference.
Two-day speaker schedule for the Villa Mondragone conference.
List of roughly 81 conference attendees and organizers.
Event photos and media coverage from the 2012 conference.
Full text of all twelve conference talk abstracts.
Links to D'Imperio's 1976 seminar, the 1998 Teddington notes, and video coverage.
Master index page for the entire /hist/ legacy-archive mirror.
Printed-source list, transcription history, and 'Friends of the VMS' from Reeds' original 1990s site.
33 unpublished plus 141 printed sources compiled by Jim Reeds.
Petersen-number folio checklist from 1997 (plain text).
Technical note on the physical layout of the manuscript's foldout pages (1994).
ASCII-art diagram of all twenty quires.
Full text of the 1940s First Study Group transcription.
Jacques Guy's 1991-1996 overview of his 'Frogguy' transliteration alphabet.
Full tutorial and conversion tables for the Frogguy system.
Bibliography compiled during the early mailing-list era of Voynich research (plain text).
Earlier variant of Reeds' folio checklist.
Corrected Currier transcription covering folios f1r through roughly f37v.
Currier's original, partial transcription of the manuscript.
One of Robert Firth's 1991-1995 statistical/linguistic research notes on the manuscript's text.
Statistical/linguistic analysis note by Robert Firth (character frequency and related topics).
Statistical/linguistic analysis note by Robert Firth.
Statistical/linguistic analysis note by Robert Firth, part of his gallows-letter/orthography studies.
Statistical/linguistic analysis note by Robert Firth.
Statistical/linguistic analysis note by Robert Firth, touching on the Trithemian-cipher hypothesis.
Statistical/linguistic analysis note by Robert Firth.
Statistical/linguistic analysis note by Robert Firth.
Statistical/linguistic analysis note by Robert Firth, the last in the surviving/linked series.
Gabriel Landini's full character and connectivity reference for the EVA font (May 2025).
Placeholder page β€” archive is empty and marked 'in preparation'; disallowed for search-engine crawlers via robots.txt.
Alternate path to the same empty, 'in preparation' mailing-list archive.
Zandbergen's slide deck from the 2012 Villa Mondragone centenary conference.
Zandbergen's 2019 HistoCrypt conference survey talk.
2021 paper extending Rugg's hoax-generator hypothesis.
2023 paper revising the account of the manuscript's pre-1912 whereabouts.
Greg Hodgins' 2009 letter/report to Yale on the carbon-14 dating results.
Zandbergen & Prinke's 2016 paper on alchemical imagery in the Rudolfine-Prague context.

✍️ Writing System 1 pages

Covers layout, labels and titles, the character set (gallows, abbreviations, alchemical symbols), and scribal hands (Currier vs. Lisa Fagin Davis).

πŸ”€ Transcription, Transliteration & Data Files 76 pages

History of transliteration efforts β€” FSG, Bennett, Currier, Frogguy, EVA, Takahashi β€” through the modern IVTFF format.
Covers the IVTFF format, the ivtt/bitrans tools, and notes on lost text.
A synthetic superset alphabet unifying all the various transliteration alphabets used over the years.
Defines the alignment alphabet and the derived 'Reference Transliteration' (RF).
Older, pre-v1.7 format file versions kept on the site for continuity.
Full transcript of Prescott Currier's 1976 seminar presentation.
Index page linking to PDF scans of Currier's original tables.
Scanned PDF of Currier's complete 1976 seminar paper.
Scanned concordance of foliation, pagination, language, and scribal hand.
Jorge Stolfi's Q-O-I-X-E-O word-structure model.
Stolfi's soft/hard letter split of Voynichese words, with frequency tables.
Stolfi's core/mantle/crust context-free grammar model of word structure.
Full machine-readable, probabilistic version of Stolfi's grammar rules.
Shows that Voynichese word-type lengths fit an almost-perfect binomial distribution.
2002 follow-up comparing Voynichese word lengths to monosyllabic-language statistics.
Index page linking to Stolfi's page-by-page scatterplot visualizations.
Sub-plots showing word/character-class frequency clustering by page.
Formal specification of the IVTFF transliteration file format.
User manual for the IVTT transliteration preprocessing tool.
C source code for the ivtt preprocessing tool.
User manual for the bitrans alphabet-conversion utility.
C source code for the bitrans alphabet-conversion utility.
Zip archive bundling all individual .bit alphabet-conversion definition files.
Readme describing the contents and conventions of the /software/ directory.
Downloadable TrueType font for rendering Voynichese text in the EVA alphabet.
Downloadable TrueType font for rendering Voynichese text in the v101 alphabet.
Readme describing the contents and file-naming conventions of the /data/ directory.
Unlinked working Word document found via directory listing; purpose not documented elsewhere on the site.
Unlinked spreadsheet, likely a working file behind the IVTFF character-set definitions.
Current-version Frogguy-alphabet transliteration file in IVTFF format.
Current-version Currier/D'Imperio-alphabet transliteration file in IVTFF format.
Current-version interlinear/Takahashi transliteration file in IVTFF format.
Current-version Zandbergen-Landini transliteration file in IVTFF format.
Current-version Claston/v101 transliteration file in IVTFF format.
Current 'Reference Transliteration' (RF) file, extended variant.
Current Reference Transliteration file, extended raw variant.
Voynich Typeface (VT) transliteration file in IVTFF format.
Transliteration file in the older v101 alphabet format.
Documentation of character families within the Super Transliteration Alphabet.
Formal definition document for the STA1 alphabet.
Reference Transliteration data file, version RF1b.
Earlier archived version of the Currier/D'Imperio transliteration file.
Earlier archived version of the Claston/v101 transliteration file.
Earlier archived version of the interlinear/Takahashi transliteration file.
Superseded version of the IVTFF format specification.
Superseded version of the IVTT tool manual.
Earlier archived version of the Reference Transliteration file.
Takahashi's own transliteration converted to IVTFF format, archived version.
Earlier archived version of the Zandbergen-Landini transliteration file.
Earlier archived version of the Zandbergen-Landini transliteration file.
Earlier archived, raw version of the Zandbergen-Landini transliteration file.
Superseded C source code for the ivtt tool.
Earlier archived version of the Frogguy-alphabet transliteration file.
Earlier archived version of the Currier/D'Imperio transliteration file.
Earlier archived version of the interlinear/Takahashi transliteration file.
Earlier archived version of the Zandbergen-Landini transliteration file.
Earlier archived version of the Claston/v101 transliteration file.
Readme for the /data/beta/ working directory of in-progress files.
Working/beta version of an LSI-alphabet transliteration file.
Zip archive bundling working versions of the Reference Transliteration files.
Modified Pliny-text file used as a control corpus for statistical comparison.
Modified Pliny-text file used as a control corpus for statistical comparison.
Normalized Pliny-text file used as a control corpus for statistical comparison.
Reference scan image tied to the manuscript image-processing/paint-removal project.
Unprocessed test scan used in the image-processing experiment.
Unprocessed test scan used in the image-processing experiment.
Paint-removal-processed test scan used in the image-processing experiment.
Test image used in an image-processing parameter experiment.
Test image used in an image-processing parameter experiment.
Test image used in an image-processing parameter experiment.
Test image used in an image-processing parameter experiment.
Test image used in an image-processing parameter experiment.
Test image used in an image-processing parameter experiment.
Duplicate temp-folder copy of the beta Pliny control-corpus file.
Duplicate temp-folder copy of the beta Pliny control-corpus file.
Duplicate temp-folder copy of the beta Pliny control-corpus file.

πŸ“Š Statistical Analysis 18 pages

Entry point to the five-part statistical analysis section of the site.
Covers Currier/RZ languages, entropy theory, Zipf's law, Hidden Markov Modelling, and cluster analysis.
Character frequencies, entropy results, and vowel/consonant detection experiments.
Covers roots/suffixes, generic-word theory, and slot-alphabet models of word structure.
Word tokens vs. types, word-space significance, word-length distribution, and word entropy.
Covers the absence of repeating phrases, topic modelling, and long-range statistical correlations.
Character/word counts, a study of repeated 'i' strings, and the Cuva alphabet definition.
Detailed comparison of character-frequency-distribution entropy against plain texts.
In-progress experiments applying 2- and 3-state HMMs to separate vowels and consonants.
Page currently returns no content β€” likely a dead or placeholder page.
Bigram-distribution cluster analysis exploring the Currier A/B continuum.
Word-frequency and page-correlation analysis identifying six page-family clusters.
Compares word-initial vs. whole-word entropy against reference texts like Dante and Pliny.
Shows that zodiac and pharmaceutical labels have a flatter word-frequency distribution than running text.
Refined A/B/C language classification correlated with Lisa Fagin Davis's five scribal hands.
Jacques Guy's 1997 translations of Sukhotin's decipherment-algorithm papers.
Zandbergen's own write-up of his Hidden Markov Model implementation.
An accessible tutorial on Markov chains and HMMs using 'monkey typing' simulations.

πŸ’­ Author's Views & FAQ 1 pages

Page for discontinued supplementary material; body simply explains the removal.

πŸ“š Bibliography & References 1 pages

Library holdings, internet resources (forums, wikis, blogs), and a large alphabetical print bibliography.

πŸ“„ Folio-by-Folio Pages (MS Browser) 20 pages

Thumbnail index of all folios, linking into 18 quire pages, with a note on the page-description methodology.
Detailed per-folio descriptions (illustration type, text/language/scribal-hand ID, tentative object identifications) for every folio in Quire 1.
Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 2.
Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 3.
Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 4.
Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 5.
Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 6.
Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 7.
Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 8.
Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 9.
Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 10.
Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 11.
Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 12.
Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 13.
Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 14.
Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 15.
Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 17 (Quires 16 and 18 do not exist β€” physically missing from the manuscript).
Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 19.
Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 20 (the recipes section).
Dedicated sub-page summarizing John Tiltman's textual analysis of the Quire 20 recipes.
Compiled by manually crawling voynich.nu, including its hyperlinked pages, exposed directory listings (/data/, /software/), the legacy /hist/ archive mirror, and Google site-search results, to surface pages with no inbound navigation links.
Some very old pages (e.g. Firth research notes, mailing-list archives) may still be incomplete on the source site itself.