Codex MondragonisBeinecke MS 408 · research

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Here you find the materials consistent with the method: analysis, data, editions. Third-party works (dictionaries, facsimiles, papers) are catalogued in the monograph, not redistributed. The translations of the seventeenth-century letters are original to the authors.

Analysis and method

Findings of the investigation on real data

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The measured characterization of the text: entropy, section specificity, slot structure, what is excluded and what remains open.

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The statistical validator, a method note

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Why a baseline is needed, how the Champollion-style cross-constraint works, the validation of the tool.

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The Voynich as a wellness manual

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Reading the book as the knowledge package of an early-fifteenth-century physician-apothecary.

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Medical scribal abbreviations (Cappelli)

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A catalogue of the Latin abbreviations from which the signs graphically derive.

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Data and transcription

IVTFF/STA transcription (RF1b)

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The full transcription, about 37,000 word-tokens, on which the validator and the analyses run.

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Glyph inventory

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The manuscript's alphabet with frequencies.

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Real anchors

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The (Voynich word, hypothesized meaning) pairs preloaded in the validator.

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Atlas of zodiac labels

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The labels beside the signs, compared with star names and lunar mansions.

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Editions

Diplomatic edition

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A facing-text edition, for line-by-line consultation.

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Complete monograph (128 pages)

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Monograph, state-of-the-art manual, register, library, translated seventeenth-century letters, appendices and source code. Given its size it is served on request.

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