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- π Statistical Analysis (18)
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π Introduction & Overview 1 pages
| General Introductionintro.html | Executive summary of the manuscript and a guided tour of how the site itself is organized. |
π Manuscript Description 3 pages
| Description of the Voynich MSdescr.html | Physical codex description: parchment, quires, foliation, missing folios, Petersen numbering, quire marks, and binding. |
| Layout of the MSlayout.html | Visual collation diagrams showing the foldout structure of every quire. |
| Special Topics: MS Descriptionextra/sp_descr.html | Deep dive on the binding/cover history and the pencilled inside-cover annotations left by four post-1912 owners. |
π¨ Illustrations 4 pages
| The Illustrations in the Manuscriptillustr.html | Section-by-section breakdown (herbal, astronomical, cosmological, zodiac, biological, pharmaceutical, recipes) with comparison images from other manuscripts. |
| Special Topics: MS Illustrationsextra/sp_illustr.html | Gheuens/Rapaport criteria for classifying Herbal-A vs Herbal-B pages, plus a comparison of the f69r winds diagram. |
| Pre-1960s Tentative Herb Identificationsextra/herb_oldid.html | Early plant-identification attempts by O'Neill and Holm, drawing on Petersen's transcription and Ethel Voynich's notebooks. |
| Vaticanus gr. 1291extra/vatg1291.html | Describes the Helios miniature in this 9th-century Ptolemy manuscript, proposed as a stylistic precedent for the zodiac nymphs. |
ποΈ Origin & History 42 pages
| The Origin of the Voynich MSorigin.html | Creation date via carbon dating, materials, production order, collation, missing folios, and page-order reconstruction. |
| The History of the Voynich MShistory.html | Provenance chain from Rudolf II through Tepenec, Barschius, Marci, Kircher, the Collegium Romanum, and Wilfrid Voynich. |
| Special Topics: Originextra/sp_origin.html | Deep dive on folio/quire numbering, evidence of page-order disturbance, and a tentative production reconstruction. |
| Radio-Carbon Dating of the Voynich MSextra/carbon.html | Details of the 2009 University of Arizona carbon-14 dating result (1404-1438, 95% probability). |
| Special Topics: Historyextra/sp_history.html | Debunks the John Dee/Rudolf II legend and discusses Marci's scribe and Voynich's booksellers. |
| Biographiescurricula.html | Short biographies of Rauwolf, Widemann, Rudolf II, Tepenec, Mnisovsky, Barschius, Marci, Kircher, Strickland, and W.M. Voynich. |
| List of Archivesarchive.html | Inventory of primary and secondary archival repositories worldwide holding manuscript-related material. |
| 17th-Century Lettersletters.html | Transcriptions and analysis of the 1639-1667 Kircher correspondence chain. |
| Source Textssources.html | Chronological compilation of primary-source quotations relevant to the manuscript's history. |
| The Inventory of Rudolf's Museumextra/inventory.html | Analysis of the 1607 Kunstkammer catalogue β the manuscript cannot be positively identified within it. |
| Books Once Owned by Jacobus Horcickyextra/sinapius_books.html | Traces the ex libris mark of Tepenec (Sinapius) across five known books and manuscripts. |
| The Vicissitudes of the Society of Jesus in Romeextra/socjesu.html | Background on Jesuit institutions and archives between 1665 and 1912. |
| Where Was the MS Kept, and How Did Voynich Find It?extra/mondragone.html | Investigates, and largely disproves, the popular 'Villa Mondragone discovery' story. |
| Manuscripts Voynich Acquired in 1911-1912extra/coll_rom_mss.html | Reconstructed list of roughly 20-30 manuscripts, including the Voynich MS, acquired from the Collegio Romano. |
| Why the Voynich MS Is Not a Modern Fakeextra/nofake.html | Rebuttal of the theory that Voynich himself forged the manuscript. |
| An Aristotle MS Bought by Voynich in 1912extra/aristotle.html | Traces a companion Aristotle manuscript, split up and later reunited across three US libraries. |
| A Hrabanus Maurus MS Copied by Rudolfmisc/misc_03.html | Traces a Kunstkammer inventory entry to Vatican Reg.Lat.124 / Paris Arsenal 472. |
| Correspondence with Bohemian State Archivesmisc/misc_04.html | 1921 Voynich-Klicman correspondence regarding Tepenec, alias 'Dr. Raphael'. |
| The First Name of W.M. Voynichmisc/misc_06.html | Documentary evidence establishing 'Wilfrid' as his correct adopted first name. |
| Letters of Belle Da Costa Greenemisc/misc_08.html | Mines Greene-Berenson correspondence for evidence of Voynich's 1911-1916 sales activity. |
| Additional Notes on His Jesuit MSSmisc/misc_09.html | Draft supplement (Jan 2026) to the Collegio Romano acquisitions page, detailing individual manuscripts J01-J38. |
| Minutes of the Teddington Meeting, June 1998extra/teddington.html | Detailed minutes of an informal researcher meeting attended by Cotton, Landini, Reeds, Zandbergen, and others. |
| Facts and Sources About the Voynich Manuscriptextra/xc/voyms.html | Frameset entry point to Xavier Ceccaldi's standalone mini-site on Voynich's biography. |
| Ceccaldi Mini-Site (Frameset Root)extra/xc/index.htm | Alternate entry point into the same Xavier Ceccaldi mini-site. |
| Voynich in Londonextra/xc/london.htm | Covers Voynich's 1890-1897 London years, his Russian revolutionary circles, and his meeting with Ethel Boole. |
| A Testimony on Voynich, 1998extra/xc/testimony.htm | A personal anecdote from the son of a Philadelphia bookseller who knew Voynich. |
| Some of Voynich's Cataloguesextra/xc/cat24.htm | Details of Voynich's bookselling catalogue No. 24, with notes on catalogues 1-9. |
| The Voynich Exhibition in Chicago, Oct 1915extra/xc/chicago.htm | Transcribed newspaper coverage of the Art Institute of Chicago exhibition. |
| On Voynich's Life and Deathextra/xc/Thompson.htm | Extracts from J.W. Thompson's 1931 in-memoriam of Wilfrid Voynich. |
| Was MS 408 in the Collegio Romano?extra/xc/Ruysschaert.htm | Source-critical analysis arguing the manuscript originated in the Collegio Romano library. |
| Villa Mondragone, Father Strickland, and Voynichextra/xc/Mondragone.htm | Genealogical case study built around the figure of 'Father Strickland'. |
| From the Collegio Romano to the Villa Mondragoneextra/xc/CRtoVM.htm | Argues how the manuscripts physically moved, citing an 1873 Jesuit-suppression letter. |
| Ceccaldi Mini-Site: Link Index Frameextra/xc/droite.htm | Navigation frame component listing links within the Ceccaldi mini-site. |
| Ceccaldi Mini-Site: Blank Nav Frameextra/xc/gauche.htm | Blank navigation frame component used by the Ceccaldi mini-site's frameset layout. |
| Prinke's History-of-Ownership Hubhist/rafal/vms.html | Rafal Prinke's chronological ownership chart with links to his individual research sub-pages. |
| Did John Dee Really Sell the VMS to Rudolf II?hist/rafal/dee.html | Detailed rebuttal of the Dee/Rudolf sale legend, footnoted with 18 primary sources. |
| VMS-Related Manuscriptshist/rafal/manus.html | Survey of Czech manuscript catalogues; a 1493 manuscript signed by Tepenec links him to the Voynich MS. |
| VMS-Related Paleographic Sampleshist/rafal/palgraf.html | Index of scanned paleographic comparison images used in Prinke's research. |
| Bio Info on E.L. and W.M. Voynichhist/rafal/biografie.html | Short stub page with portrait images and a coded-message image. |
| Voynich's Trips to America, 1914-1924hist/rafal/voyages.html | Ellis Island immigration-record research correcting the standard biographical timeline. |
| Folio Numbers in the Voynich MShist/rafal/numbers.html | Compares the manuscript's foliation digit style to Dee's 1583 catalogue and period Polish manuscripts. |
| Folios 59v/62r from Uppsala Cod.Slav.60hist/rafal/uppsala.html | Caption page for a comparison image relating to Mnisovsky. |
π Solvers, Research History & Claims 47 pages
| History of Research of the Voynich MSsolvers.html | Narrative history of research from Barschius and Kircher through Newbold, Friedman, Currier, Stolfi, Rugg, and Pelling. |
| Special Topics: History of Researchextra/sp_solvers.html | Detailed look at Panofsky's 1931-1954 opinions and a reconstruction of Wilfrid Voynich's own research. |
| Checklist of Facts and Mistakesextra/checklist.html | Corrects commonly repeated errors about the manuscript, including a rebuttal of a circulated 'Voynich myths' list. |
| Collection of Triviaextra/trivia.html | A growing, informal list of small historical anecdotes about the manuscript. |
| Hauer and Kondrak (2016)misc/misc_01.html | Critical analysis debunking the viral claim that AI decoded the manuscript as anagrammed Hebrew. |
| Epilogue: My Views (also functions as solver-claims FAQ)myviews.html | Zandbergen's personal opinions on proposed solutions, origin theories, and an extensive FAQ for would-be decipherers. |
| VOYNICH 100 Conference Hubmon2012/index.html | Landing page for the 11 May 2012 Villa Mondragone centenary conference. |
| Conference Announcementmon2012/mon00.html | Venue, programme summary, and registration/lodging information for the 2012 conference. |
| Hotel/Lodging Listingsmon2012/mon01.html | Conference-adjacent lodging options: Villa Grazioli, Flora, Villa Vecchia, Colonna, and others. |
| Maps and Travel Infomon2012/mon02.html | Access information for Frascati and Rome airports and train connections. |
| Registration Instructionsmon2012/mon03.html | Email sign-up procedure for the 2012 conference. |
| Full Programmemon2012/mon04.html | Two-day speaker schedule for the Villa Mondragone conference. |
| Attendee Listmon2012/mon05.html | List of roughly 81 conference attendees and organizers. |
| Photo Albummon2012/mon06.html | Event photos and media coverage from the 2012 conference. |
| Abstractsmon2012/mon07.html | Full text of all twelve conference talk abstracts. |
| Previous Symposia & Mediamon2012/mon08.html | Links to D'Imperio's 1976 seminar, the 1998 Teddington notes, and video coverage. |
| Copies of the Oldest WWW Information on the VMShist/www_old.html | Master index page for the entire /hist/ legacy-archive mirror. |
| Jim Reeds' 1990s Homepage (mirror)hist/reeds/reeds_index.html | Printed-source list, transcription history, and 'Friends of the VMS' from Reeds' original 1990s site. |
| Annotated Voynich Bibliography (Reeds)hist/reeds/reeds_biblio.html | 33 unpublished plus 141 printed sources compiled by Jim Reeds. |
| Provisional Checklist of VMS 'Pages'hist/reeds/checklist.txt | Petersen-number folio checklist from 1997 (plain text). |
| Voynich Foldoutshist/reeds/foldouts.txt | Technical note on the physical layout of the manuscript's foldout pages (1994). |
| Quire Layouthist/reeds/quires.html | ASCII-art diagram of all twenty quires. |
| First Study Group Transcriptionhist/reeds/FSG.txt | Full text of the 1940s First Study Group transcription. |
| Frogguy Transcription Alphabethist/guy/frogguy.html | Jacques Guy's 1991-1996 overview of his 'Frogguy' transliteration alphabet. |
| The Frogguy Transliteration Systemhist/guy/tutorial.html | Full tutorial and conversion tables for the Frogguy system. |
| Voynich Bibliography (Baez, 1992)hist/rand/biblio.txt | Bibliography compiled during the early mailing-list era of Voynich research (plain text). |
| Provisional Checklist (1995 version)hist/rand/checklist.txt | Earlier variant of Reeds' folio checklist. |
| VMS Transcription (Revised)hist/rand/voynich_now.txt | Corrected Currier transcription covering folios f1r through roughly f37v. |
| VMS Transcription (Original)hist/rand/Voynich_orig.txt | Currier's original, partial transcription of the manuscript. |
| Firth Research Note 02hist/firth/note02.txt | One of Robert Firth's 1991-1995 statistical/linguistic research notes on the manuscript's text. |
| Firth Research Note 09hist/firth/note09.txt | Statistical/linguistic analysis note by Robert Firth (character frequency and related topics). |
| Firth Research Note 16hist/firth/note16.txt | Statistical/linguistic analysis note by Robert Firth. |
| Firth Research Note 17hist/firth/note17.txt | Statistical/linguistic analysis note by Robert Firth, part of his gallows-letter/orthography studies. |
| Firth Research Note 19hist/firth/note19.txt | Statistical/linguistic analysis note by Robert Firth. |
| Firth Research Note 21hist/firth/note21.txt | Statistical/linguistic analysis note by Robert Firth, touching on the Trithemian-cipher hypothesis. |
| Firth Research Note 22hist/firth/note22.txt | Statistical/linguistic analysis note by Robert Firth. |
| Firth Research Note 23hist/firth/note23.txt | Statistical/linguistic analysis note by Robert Firth. |
| Firth Research Note 24hist/firth/note24.txt | Statistical/linguistic analysis note by Robert Firth, the last in the surviving/linked series. |
| EVA Alphabet Font v.2 Referencehist/gabriel/eva2_reference.pdf | Gabriel Landini's full character and connectivity reference for the EVA font (May 2025). |
| Old Mailing-List Archive (index)hist/list/index.html | Placeholder page β archive is empty and marked 'in preparation'; disallowed for search-engine crawlers via robots.txt. |
| Old Mailing-List Archivehist/list.html | Alternate path to the same empty, 'in preparation' mailing-list archive. |
| Pre-Rudolfine History of the MS (PDF)papers/Voynich100_RZ_2012.pdf | Zandbergen's slide deck from the 2012 Villa Mondragone centenary conference. |
| No News About the Voynich Manuscript? (PDF)papers/NoNews_RZ_2019.pdf | Zandbergen's 2019 HistoCrypt conference survey talk. |
| The Cardan Grille Approach Taken Further (PDF)papers/Grilles_RZ_2021.pdf | 2021 paper extending Rugg's hoax-generator hypothesis. |
| Voynich's Acquisition, Not in Villa Mondragone (PDF)papers/Acquisition_RZ_2023.pdf | 2023 paper revising the account of the manuscript's pre-1912 whereabouts. |
| Original Radiocarbon Dating Report (PDF)papers/Carbon_GH_2009.pdf | Greg Hodgins' 2009 letter/report to Yale on the carbon-14 dating results. |
| The Voynich MS in Rudolfine Prague (PDF)papers/Alchemy_RZ-RP_2016.pdf | Zandbergen & Prinke's 2016 paper on alchemical imagery in the Rudolfine-Prague context. |
βοΈ Writing System 1 pages
| Text Analysis: The Writing Systemwriting.html | Covers layout, labels and titles, the character set (gallows, abbreviations, alchemical symbols), and scribal hands (Currier vs. Lisa Fagin Davis). |
π€ Transcription, Transliteration & Data Files 76 pages
| Transliteration of the Texttranscr.html | History of transliteration efforts β FSG, Bennett, Currier, Frogguy, EVA, Takahashi β through the modern IVTFF format. |
| Special Topics: Transliterationextra/sp_transcr.html | Covers the IVTFF format, the ivtt/bitrans tools, and notes on lost text. |
| Super Transliteration Alphabet (STA)extra/sta.html | A synthetic superset alphabet unifying all the various transliteration alphabets used over the years. |
| Analytical Alignment Alphabetextra/sta-aaa.html | Defines the alignment alphabet and the derived 'Reference Transliteration' (RF). |
| Legacy Transliteration Filesextra/legacy.html | Older, pre-v1.7 format file versions kept on the site for continuity. |
| Currier's Papersextra/curr_main.html | Full transcript of Prescott Currier's 1976 seminar presentation. |
| Currier's Papers in PDF Formatextra/curr_pdfs.html | Index page linking to PDF scans of Currier's original tables. |
| Currier 1976 Full Paper (PDF)extra/img/curr_main.pdf | Scanned PDF of Currier's complete 1976 seminar paper. |
| Currier's Table A (PDF)extra/img/curr_tabA.pdf | Scanned concordance of foliation, pagination, language, and scribal hand. |
| Note 017: The 'OKOKOKO' Paradigmhist/stolfi/okoko.html | Jorge Stolfi's Q-O-I-X-E-O word-structure model. |
| Prefix-Midfix-Suffix Decompositionhist/stolfi/prefix-midfix-suffix.html | Stolfi's soft/hard letter split of Voynichese words, with frequency tables. |
| A Grammar for Voynichese Wordshist/stolfi/grammar.html | Stolfi's core/mantle/crust context-free grammar model of word structure. |
| Grammar (Raw Definition)hist/stolfi/grammar_text.html | Full machine-readable, probabilistic version of Stolfi's grammar rules. |
| On the VMS Word-Length Distributionhist/stolfi/word-length-distr.html | Shows that Voynichese word-type lengths fit an almost-perfect binomial distribution. |
| Chinese Theory Redux!hist/stolfi/chinese-redux.html | 2002 follow-up comparing Voynichese word lengths to monosyllabic-language statistics. |
| Page Scatterplots (Index)hist/stolfi/page-plots.html | Index page linking to Stolfi's page-by-page scatterplot visualizations. |
| Page Scatterplots: The Plotshist/stolfi/plots-plots.html | Sub-plots showing word/character-class frequency clustering by page. |
| IVTFF Format Specification v2.0.2 (PDF)software/ivtt/IVTFF_format.pdf | Formal specification of the IVTFF transliteration file format. |
| IVTT Tool User Manual (PDF)software/ivtt/IVTT_manual.pdf | User manual for the IVTT transliteration preprocessing tool. |
| IVTT Tool Source Codesoftware/ivtt/ivtt.c | C source code for the ivtt preprocessing tool. |
| Bitrans Tool User Manual (PDF)software/bitrans/Bitrans_manual.pdf | User manual for the bitrans alphabet-conversion utility. |
| Bitrans Tool Source Codesoftware/bitrans/bitrans.c | C source code for the bitrans alphabet-conversion utility. |
| Bitrans Conversion Files (ZIP)software/bitrans/bitfiles.zip | Zip archive bundling all individual .bit alphabet-conversion definition files. |
| Software Directory Readmesoftware/000_README.txt | Readme describing the contents and conventions of the /software/ directory. |
| EVA Font (TrueType)Fonts/EVA2.ttf | Downloadable TrueType font for rendering Voynichese text in the EVA alphabet. |
| v101 Font (TrueType)Fonts/voynich.ttf | Downloadable TrueType font for rendering Voynichese text in the v101 alphabet. |
| Data Directory Readmedata/000_README.txt | Readme describing the contents and file-naming conventions of the /data/ directory. |
| AB.docx (Word document)data/AB.docx | Unlinked working Word document found via directory listing; purpose not documented elsewhere on the site. |
| ivtff.xlsx (Spreadsheet)data/ivtff.xlsx | Unlinked spreadsheet, likely a working file behind the IVTFF character-set definitions. |
| FG Transliteration (current)data/FG2a-n.txt | Current-version Frogguy-alphabet transliteration file in IVTFF format. |
| CD Transliteration (current)data/CD2a-n.txt | Current-version Currier/D'Imperio-alphabet transliteration file in IVTFF format. |
| IT Transliteration (current)data/IT2a-n.txt | Current-version interlinear/Takahashi transliteration file in IVTFF format. |
| ZL Transliteration (current)data/ZL3b-n.txt | Current-version Zandbergen-Landini transliteration file in IVTFF format. |
| GC Transliteration (current)data/GC2a-n.txt | Current-version Claston/v101 transliteration file in IVTFF format. |
| RF Reference Transliteration (extended)data/RF1b-e.txt | Current 'Reference Transliteration' (RF) file, extended variant. |
| RF Reference Transliteration (extended, raw)data/RF1b-er.txt | Current Reference Transliteration file, extended raw variant. |
| VT Transliterationdata/VT0e-n.txt | Voynich Typeface (VT) transliteration file in IVTFF format. |
| Voynich-101 Transliterationdata/voyn_101.txt | Transliteration file in the older v101 alphabet format. |
| STA1 Character Families (PDF)data/sta/STA1-families.pdf | Documentation of character families within the Super Transliteration Alphabet. |
| STA1 Definition (PDF)data/sta/STA1_def.pdf | Formal definition document for the STA1 alphabet. |
| RF1b Reference Filedata/sta/RF1b.txt | Reference Transliteration data file, version RF1b. |
| Currier/D'Imperio Transliteration (v0d, archived)data/previous/C-D_ivtff_0d.txt | Earlier archived version of the Currier/D'Imperio transliteration file. |
| Claston/v101 Transliteration (v0c, archived)data/previous/GC_ivtff_0c.txt | Earlier archived version of the Claston/v101 transliteration file. |
| Interlinear/Takahashi Transliteration (v0b, archived)data/previous/IT_ivtff_0b.txt | Earlier archived version of the interlinear/Takahashi transliteration file. |
| IVTFF Format Spec, Version 1.7 (archived, PDF)data/previous/IVTFF_format_1_7.pdf | Superseded version of the IVTFF format specification. |
| IVTT Manual, Version 1.3 (archived, PDF)data/previous/IVTT_manual_1_3.pdf | Superseded version of the IVTT tool manual. |
| Reference Transliteration (v1a, archived)data/previous/RF1a-n.txt | Earlier archived version of the Reference Transliteration file. |
| Takahashi 'TT' Transliteration (archived)data/previous/TT_ivtff_v0a.txt | Takahashi's own transliteration converted to IVTFF format, archived version. |
| Zandbergen-Landini Transliteration (v1b, archived)data/previous/ZL_ivtff_1b.txt | Earlier archived version of the Zandbergen-Landini transliteration file. |
| Zandbergen-Landini Transliteration (v1c, archived)data/previous/ZL_ivtff_1c.txt | Earlier archived version of the Zandbergen-Landini transliteration file. |
| Zandbergen-Landini Transliteration (v1r, archived)data/previous/ZL_ivtff_1r.txt | Earlier archived, raw version of the Zandbergen-Landini transliteration file. |
| IVTT Tool Source, Version 1.3 (archived)data/previous/ivtt_1_3.c | Superseded C source code for the ivtt tool. |
| Frogguy Transliteration (v1e, archived)data/previous/FG_ivtff_1e.txt | Earlier archived version of the Frogguy-alphabet transliteration file. |
| Currier/D'Imperio Transliteration (v1a, archived)data/previous/CD_ivtff_1a.txt | Earlier archived version of the Currier/D'Imperio transliteration file. |
| Interlinear/Takahashi Transliteration (v1a, archived)data/previous/IT_ivtff_1a.txt | Earlier archived version of the interlinear/Takahashi transliteration file. |
| Zandbergen-Landini Transliteration (v2b, archived)data/previous/ZL_ivtff_2b.txt | Earlier archived version of the Zandbergen-Landini transliteration file. |
| Claston/v101 Transliteration (v1b, archived)data/previous/GC_ivtff_1b.txt | Earlier archived version of the Claston/v101 transliteration file. |
| Beta Directory Readmedata/beta/000_README.txt | Readme for the /data/beta/ working directory of in-progress files. |
| LSI Transliteration (beta)data/beta/LSI_ivtff_0d.txt | Working/beta version of an LSI-alphabet transliteration file. |
| Reference Transliteration Files (ZIP, beta)data/beta/RF.zip | Zip archive bundling working versions of the Reference Transliteration files. |
| Pliny Control Text, Variant 1 (beta)data/beta/pliny_mod1.txt | Modified Pliny-text file used as a control corpus for statistical comparison. |
| Pliny Control Text, Variant 2 (beta)data/beta/pliny_mod2.txt | Modified Pliny-text file used as a control corpus for statistical comparison. |
| Pliny Control Text, Normalized (beta)data/beta/pliny_norm.txt | Normalized Pliny-text file used as a control corpus for statistical comparison. |
| Test/Reference Scan Image (beta)data/beta/1006194B-a.png | Reference scan image tied to the manuscript image-processing/paint-removal project. |
| Test Image: No Processing (beta)data/beta/1006208-nop.jpg | Unprocessed test scan used in the image-processing experiment. |
| Test Image: No Processing, Variant 2 (beta)data/beta/1006208-nop2.jpg | Unprocessed test scan used in the image-processing experiment. |
| Test Image: Paint-Removal Processed (beta)data/beta/1006208-pai.jpg | Paint-removal-processed test scan used in the image-processing experiment. |
| Image-Processing Test File 1000 (beta)data/beta/test_1000.jpg | Test image used in an image-processing parameter experiment. |
| Image-Processing Test File 1100 (beta)data/beta/test_1100.jpg | Test image used in an image-processing parameter experiment. |
| Image-Processing Test File 1110 (beta)data/beta/test_1110.jpg | Test image used in an image-processing parameter experiment. |
| Image-Processing Test File 1111 (beta)data/beta/test_1111.jpg | Test image used in an image-processing parameter experiment. |
| Image-Processing Test File 1222 (beta)data/beta/test_1222.jpg | Test image used in an image-processing parameter experiment. |
| Image-Processing Test File 2222 (beta)data/beta/test_2222.jpg | Test image used in an image-processing parameter experiment. |
| Pliny Control Text, Variant 1 (temp copy)data/temp/pliny_mod1.txt | Duplicate temp-folder copy of the beta Pliny control-corpus file. |
| Pliny Control Text, Variant 2 (temp copy)data/temp/pliny_mod2.txt | Duplicate temp-folder copy of the beta Pliny control-corpus file. |
| Pliny Control Text, Normalized (temp copy)data/temp/pliny_norm.txt | Duplicate temp-folder copy of the beta Pliny control-corpus file. |
π Statistical Analysis 18 pages
| Text Analysis (Hub)analysis.html | Entry point to the five-part statistical analysis section of the site. |
| Analysis 1/5: Introductiona1_intro.html | Covers Currier/RZ languages, entropy theory, Zipf's law, Hidden Markov Modelling, and cluster analysis. |
| Analysis 2/5: Character Statisticsa2_char.html | Character frequencies, entropy results, and vowel/consonant detection experiments. |
| Analysis 3/5: Word Structurea3_para.html | Covers roots/suffixes, generic-word theory, and slot-alphabet models of word structure. |
| Analysis 4/5: Word Statisticsa4_word.html | Word tokens vs. types, word-space significance, word-length distribution, and word entropy. |
| Analysis 5/5: Sentences, Paragraphs & Sectionsa5_synt.html | Covers the absence of repeating phrases, topic modelling, and long-range statistical correlations. |
| Special Topics: Analysisextra/sp_analysis.html | Character/word counts, a study of repeated 'i' strings, and the Cuva alphabet definition. |
| What We Learn from Entropyextra/sol_ent.html | Detailed comparison of character-frequency-distribution entropy against plain texts. |
| Application of Hidden Markov Modellingextra/sol_hmm.html | In-progress experiments applying 2- and 3-state HMMs to separate vowels and consonants. |
| D'Imperio Cluster-Analysis Reprintextra/dimperio92c.html | Page currently returns no content β likely a dead or placeholder page. |
| Currier Languages Revisitedextra/curabcd.html | Bigram-distribution cluster analysis exploring the Currier A/B continuum. |
| Currier A and B: Two Different Languages?extra/lang.html | Word-frequency and page-correlation analysis identifying six page-family clusters. |
| From Bigram Entropy to Word Entropyextra/wordent.html | Compares word-initial vs. whole-word entropy against reference texts like Dante and Pliny. |
| Special Properties of Labelsextra/labels.html | Shows that zodiac and pharmaceutical labels have a flatter word-frequency distribution than running text. |
| Currier Language Extension (RZ Languages)extra/rz_lang.html | Refined A/B/C language classification correlated with Lisa Fagin Davis's five scribal hands. |
| Articles of B.V. Sukhotinmisc/misc_02.html | Jacques Guy's 1997 translations of Sukhotin's decipherment-algorithm papers. |
| Alternative HMM Descriptionmisc/misc_05.html | Zandbergen's own write-up of his Hidden Markov Model implementation. |
| On Monkeys and Markovmisc/misc_07.html | An accessible tutorial on Markov chains and HMMs using 'monkey typing' simulations. |
π Author's Views & FAQ 1 pages
| Keynote Paper Extra Material [Deleted]extra/conf2022_extra.html | Page for discontinued supplementary material; body simply explains the removal. |
π Bibliography & References 1 pages
| Bibliography and Referencesrefs.html | Library holdings, internet resources (forums, wikis, blogs), and a large alphabetical print bibliography. |
πΌοΈ Picture Galleries 3 pages
| Picture Gallery 1: Illustrations of the MSgallery.html | Beinecke digital images, the Voyager viewing tool, 2024 multi-spectral images, and processed/paint-removed images. |
| Portrait Gallerygallery2.html | Portrait images of key historical figures: Rudolf II, Tepenec, Marci, Kircher, Voynich, Newbold, the Friedmans, and more. |
| Locations Gallerygallery3.html | Photos of places associated with the manuscript's history, including Augsburg, Prague, Rome, and the Beinecke Library. |
π Folio-by-Folio Pages (MS Browser) 20 pages
| Pages / Folios (MS Browser Hub)folios.html | Thumbnail index of all folios, linking into 18 quire pages, with a note on the page-description methodology. |
| Quire 1q01/index.html | Detailed per-folio descriptions (illustration type, text/language/scribal-hand ID, tentative object identifications) for every folio in Quire 1. |
| Quire 2q02/index.html | Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 2. |
| Quire 3q03/index.html | Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 3. |
| Quire 4q04/index.html | Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 4. |
| Quire 5q05/index.html | Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 5. |
| Quire 6q06/index.html | Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 6. |
| Quire 7q07/index.html | Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 7. |
| Quire 8q08/index.html | Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 8. |
| Quire 9q09/index.html | Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 9. |
| Quire 10q10/index.html | Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 10. |
| Quire 11q11/index.html | Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 11. |
| Quire 12q12/index.html | Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 12. |
| Quire 13q13/index.html | Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 13. |
| Quire 14q14/index.html | Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 14. |
| Quire 15q15/index.html | Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 15. |
| Quire 17q17/index.html | Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 17 (Quires 16 and 18 do not exist β physically missing from the manuscript). |
| Quire 19q19/index.html | Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 19. |
| Quire 20q20/index.html | Detailed per-folio descriptions for every folio in Quire 20 (the recipes section). |
| Tiltman's Analysis of the Recipes Sectionq20/analysis.html | 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.
Some very old pages (e.g. Firth research notes, mailing-list archives) may still be incomplete on the source site itself.