Vitaly Averyanov

A Workshop Cipher: A Generative Model Reproducing the Statics and Dynamics of the Voynich Manuscript Text

The text of the Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS 408) combines language-like statistics (Zipf law, vowel-consonant alternation, topic structure) with properties no natural language shows, most notably a conditional character entropy h2 ~ 2.1-2.3, far below all tested languages. Gr...

Thirty Names per Sign: The Zodiac Ring Labels of the Voynich Manuscript as Two-Letter Sigla, and a Falsification Pipeline for Degree-Name Cribs

The circular "zodiac" diagrams of the Voynich Manuscript (ff. 70v-73v) carry short labels, about thirty per sign. Building on the workshop-cipher model of the companion paper, we show that these labels are not running text but a distinct register, best described as two-letter sig...

A Workshop Cipher: A Generative Model Reproducing the Statics and Dynamics of the Voynich Manuscript Text

The text of the Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS 408) combines language-like statistics (Zipf law, vowel-consonant alternation, topic structure) with properties no natural language shows, most notably a conditional character entropy h2 ~ 2.1-2.3, far below all tested languages. Gr...

Thirty Names per Sign: The Zodiac Ring Labels of the Voynich Manuscript as Two-Letter Sigla, and a Falsification Pipeline for Degree-Name Cribs

The circular "zodiac" diagrams of the Voynich Manuscript (ff. 70v-73v) carry short labels, about thirty per sign. Building on the workshop-cipher model of the companion paper, we show that these labels are not running text but a distinct register, best described as two-letter sig...