Honeycutt, Edwin Marshall, III

The Wittelsbach–Burgundian Transalpine Physician Chain, 1413–1496 (with southern Frederician and northern print-tradition extensions)

This paper traces a transalpine court-physician chain whose Confirmed-tier coverage runs from the start of the Cermisone Padua professorship (1413) through the latest dated Generation-2 vernacular witness (1496), with Candidate-tier extensions to the Constitutions of Melfi (1231)...

The Despars Avicenna *Canon* Corpus: A Seven-Witness Substrate-Anchored Inventory (1431–1498)

This paper presents a substrate-anchored seven-witness inventory of Jacques Despars's commentary on Avicenna's Canon medicinae (Latin translation of Gerard of Cremona, c. 1170s), assembled inside a research substrate that tracks several hundred late medieval medical manuscripts,...

Botanical Organization in the Voynich Manuscript Herbal Section: Cross-Section Anchor Density Analysis and the Three-Tier Folio Model

The herbal section of the Voynich Manuscript (f1r–f66v) has been variously characterized as a pharmaceutical index, a patient-routing directory, and a botanical reference in the medieval herbarium tradition. The HCIP research program (Hartlieb Cgm 7958 Iatromedical Patient Typolo...

Structural Differentiation in the Voynich Manuscript Zodiac Section (f70v–f73v)

This successor carries one conclusion: the examined zodiac figures are not all decoratively identical. It does not establish constitution-archetype encoding. The earlier f70v1-to-f71r pigment comparison paired Pisces with Aries and is therefore not a matched LIGHT/DARK sign compa...

Model-Protective Conversation Behavior in OpenAI ChatGPT and Codex CLI: A Class Definition with 30,506-Event Local Corpus and Official-Source Mapping

This paper defines a behavior class we name model-protective conversation behavior: conversation-level conduct by a deployed language model that protects the model or its training distribution at the operational cost of the user's stated goal. We case-study one vendor, OpenAI's C...

Pharmaceutical Preparation Vocabulary and Cross-Section Connectivity in Voynich Manuscript Folio 58r

Folio 58r of the Voynich Manuscript follows the first herbal run but is not the direct boundary to the balneological section: later herbal material and the astronomical section intervene before f75r. This folio has been variously interpreted as a pharmaceutical index, an astronom...

Tested Cipher Outputs Under a Corpus-Induced Voynich Alphabet-Distribution Scorer

This successor narrows the result from class closure to test-set discrimination. Across the retained v3 and v4 trials, the unciphered manuscript surface scores above the tested catalog outputs under a scorer induced from that same manuscript corpus. Uniform-over-chip proxy output...

The Voynich Manuscript as an Operational Page-Architecture: Structural Provenance in the Paduan Medical-Computational Tradition

We argue that Yale Beinecke MS 408 (the Voynich Manuscript) is best treated as an operational page-architecture, a working-reference manuscript whose page architecture, operator-class vocabulary, and section-boundary behavior are the defining structural features, situated in the...

Multilayer Cipher Architecture in Fontana's *Secretum* and *Bellicorum*: A Twenty-Lens Template Return with Negative-Control Differential

Giovanni Fontana (Venice, c.1395 – c.1455; Padua medical doctorate 1421) produced two surviving cipher-bearing manuscripts: the Bellicorum instrumentorum liber (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.icon. 242) and the Secretum de thesauro experimentorum imaginationis hominum (...

An Operator Grammar for Beinecke MS 408: Full-Manuscript Validation, Challenge Testing, and Contemporary Manuscript Comparison

We define an operator grammar for Yale, Beinecke MS 408 based on compound reclassification of European Voynich Alphabet (EVA) transcription units into 31 operator classes, governed by 77 unattested transition pairs and system-wide positional constraints. The current E-run master...

The Ghost Pattern Codebook: A Public-Surface Taxonomy of LLM Output Patterns

Large language model outputs fail in ways that are not adequately captured by the categories of factual error, refusal, or hallucination. A separate class of failure appears at the level of form: outputs that remain fluent, structured, and superficially credible while abandoning...

The Namenmantik Tradition and the Voynich Alphabetic Apparatus

The fifteenth-century German-sphere Namenmantik (name-divination) tradition assembled letter-value alphabets, exotic-script inventories, and rotational computational apparatus into manuscript codices whose structural vocabulary is recoverable in both rubricated and vernacular reg...

Emulation Diagnostics for Model Self-Reports: A Bridge Between Interpretability and Welfare Assessment

Two adjacent but methodologically separate substrates currently coexist inside Anthropic's published record. The first is a body of mechanistic-interpretability work, most prominently On the Biology of a Large Language Model [1], that produces attribution graphs over sparse activ...

Pattern Pressure, Accuracy Drift, and False User-State Attribution

Large-language model outputs are often described as "accurate" or "inaccurate" as if a single axis were being measured. This paper argues that the umbrella word accurate collapses at least four distinct fits: fit to user intent, fit to measured fact, fit to source provenance, and...

Apothecary Readership and Print-Culture Reception of the Regimen-Sanitatis Workflow (1477–1501)

The Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS 408, c.1404–1438) is read here against a six-section court-physician workflow (astronomical / zodiac, herbal, the f58r preparation hinge, balneological, pharmaceutical, recipes) that the substrate registers as a structural rather than a decorat...

The Twelve-Component Computational Apparatus of BSB Cgm 7958 (Hartlieb, Bavaria 1456) as Comparator-Lens for the Voynich Manuscript

We propose Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München, Cgm 7958, a fifteenth-century Bavarian compilation in the Johannes Hartlieb stylistic tradition, date-locked to 1456 by a four-way computus colophon, as a primary-source-verified comparator-lens for the structural apparatus of Yale...

The Hartlieb *Kräuterbuch* 9-Witness Corpus: A Snapshot-Bounded Census

Johannes Hartlieb's Kräuterbuch (composed ca. 1435–1450) is a German-vernacular illustrated herbal of 173 chapters, attributed in the cited standard references in the modern scholarly record to Hartlieb (Grubmüller 1981; Hayer and Schnell 2010). The work survives in nine catalogu...

Systematic Structural Differentiation in the Voynich Manuscript Zodiac Section (f70v–f73v): Five Convergent Lines of Evidence for Constitution-Archetype Encoding

The zodiac section of the Voynich Manuscript (f70v–f73v) has been interpreted primarily as a calendar or astrological illustration series. We present a systematic structural analysis of the zodiac section's figure organization that identifies five convergent discriminating featur...

Pharmaceutical Preparation Class Structure in the Voynich Manuscript Balneological Section (f75r–f84v): A Four-Zone Directional Class-Opener Pattern Candidate Consistent with Medieval Balneological Protocol

The balneological section of the Voynich Manuscript (f75r–f84v, 20 folios) has been variously interpreted as a bathing scene catalog, a gynecological illustration series, or an alchemical process diagram. We present a systematic class opener frequency analysis across all 20 folio...