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The manuscript

The images of the Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS 408) are © Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, used for consultation and research. The transcriptions (IVTFF, EVA, voynich 101/STA) come from the voynich.nu research community; EVA is used only as a technical notation, never as a reading of the text.

Historical images (Story section)

The portraits and documents of the provenance chain are public domain or released under CC0, from Wikimedia Commons and the institutions named in each image's caption (Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Rijksmuseum, Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Library of Congress). The precise credit appears on hovering over each image.

Lexical and comparative resources

Cappelli, 'Lexicon Abbreviaturarum' (public domain; data and images from Ad Fontes, University of Zurich). Whitaker's Words (public domain). F. Kluge, 'Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache' (public domain; archive.org scan). 'Gart der Gesundheit' (Hortus Sanitatis, Mainz ~1485; Missouri Botanical Garden copy, public domain). The Timau/Tischlbongarisch German vocabulary (Bartarpuach) and other dialect lexica: third-party works, catalogued as sources and not redistributed. Hunspell Latin dictionary (free licence).

Readings and solutions discussed

The solutions and proposals cited in the Research section — among them Kondrak & Hauer (2018), Cheshire (2019), Gibbs (2017), Tucker & Talbert, Newbold (1921) and Eleonora Matarrese's Germanic Alpine reading — are third-party works discussed for the purposes of criticism, review and research. The names identify proposals made public by their respective authors; the verdicts are methodological assessments, based on statistical tests with a baseline, and concern the hypothesis, not the person.

Typography

The decorative 'Voynich EVA' font, used to render letters as glyphs in Voynich mode, is by Kreative Korp — Rebecca G. Bettencourt (kreativekorp.com), self-hosted. The text typefaces are EB Garamond, Cormorant Garamond and UnifrakturMaguntia (SIL Open Font License).

Own works

The analyses, scripts, the validator, the generator, the image processing and the original texts (including the translations of the seventeenth-century letters) are © ART AG (Augmented Reality Technology AG) / YurekAI.

Bibliography and consulted sources

The sources of the method, cited as in academic research. Third-party resources (dictionaries, herbals, databases, hardware) are consultations of public or acquired resources; the method, the validator, the lexicon and the quantum clustering are the authors'. Each source is given with author, year, title, publisher or URL.

A · Original manuscript

  • Beinecke MS 408 (The Voynich Manuscript). Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT. Digital consultation (images © Yale University Library, research use). ↗

B · Transcriptions

  • IVTFF — Interlinear Voynich Transcription File Format. Editors: René Zandbergen, Gabriel Landini et al. ↗
  • Rainer Firth, RF1b transcription. Distributed via voynich.nu. Used as the primary text source for the statistical analysis.

C · Old and Middle High German dictionaries (OHG/MHG)

  • EWA — Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen. Lloyd, Springer, Lühr. SAW Leipzig / FSU Jena. 21,137 OHG lemmas. ↗
  • AWB — Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch. SAW Leipzig. ↗
  • Wörterbuchnetz — aggregator portal (DWB, MWB, Lexer, MLW, RhWB). ↗
  • Grimm, J. & W. (1854–1961). Deutsches Wörterbuch (DWB). Hirzel, Leipzig. ↗
  • Lexer, M. (1872–1878). Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch. Hirzel, Leipzig. ↗
  • MHDBDB — Middle High German Conceptual Database. University of Salzburg. ↗
  • Braune, W. & Eggers, H. (1987). Althochdeutsche Grammatik. Niemeyer, Tübingen. OHG phonetic rules used for the derivations.
  • Kluge, F. (1883/2002). Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache. De Gruyter, Berlin. Digital ed. DWDS. ↗
  • Du Cange (1678/1883). Glossarium Mediae et Infimae Latinitatis. Niort. ↗

D · Alpine dialects

  • Marinelli, G. (1900). Vocabolario Timavese. In: Pagine Friulane, Udine. Primary source for the Timau lexicon; elaboration by the authors.
  • Bartarpuach — Vocabulary of the Timau/Tischlbong speech (2002). Community of Timau. ↗
  • Schweizerisches Idiotikon — Wörterbuch der schweizerdeutschen Sprache. Frauenfeld, 1881–. ↗
  • Oschpele — Dictionary of the Bavarian-Tyrolean dialect of South Tyrol. Vigl H. & Peer C. Used as a comparison for phonetic forms. ↗
  • Ladin Gherdëina Dictionary. Istitut Ladin «Micurà de Rü», San Martino in Badia (BZ). ↗
  • Alpine dialects corpus: Cimbrian (Veneto/Trentino), Sauris (Carnia), Sappada (Cadore), Romansh/Ladin (Grisons). Synthetic elaboration by the authors from public sources.

E · Medieval Latin and abbreviations

  • Whitaker, W. (1993–2007). Whitaker's Words — Latin Dictionary. ↗
  • Cappelli, A. (1899/1912). Dizionario di abbreviature latine ed italiane. Hoepli, Milan. Digital ed. Ad Fontes, University of Zurich. ↗

F · Medieval herbals and historical botany

  • Konrad von Megenberg. Gart der Gesundheit (1485). Peter Schöffer, Mainz. First printed Germanic herbal; digitisation Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München. ↗
  • Hildegard von Bingen. Physica (12th c.). Critical edition CCCM 226 A/B, Brepols. Latin-Germanic medical-botanical lexicon.
  • Codex Palatinus Germanicus 539 (Cod. Pal. germ. 539). Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg. Late-14th-c. MHG herbal. ↗
  • Medieval Plants Database (MPS), linked to MHDBDB, University of Salzburg. ↗
  • Erbe Officinali — database of Italian medicinal plants. ↗
  • Acta Plantarum — Italian flora with historical nomenclature. ↗

G · Online resources and linguistics

  • TLIO — Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini. OVI / CNR, Florence. ↗
  • ARLeF — Regional Agency for the Friulian Language. Medieval Friulian corpus consulted. ↗
  • DWDS — Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache. BBAW Berlin. ↗
  • Beinecke Digital Collections. Yale University Library. ↗
  • VoynichEVA.ttf / VoynichUnicode.ttf — Voynich fonts. KreativeKorp Open Source Fonts (free licence). ↗

H · Quantum computing

  • IBM Quantum Platform. IBM Research. Quantum kernel (Qiskit, real hardware) for clustering EVA phonemes (top-30 sequences). ↗
  • Qiskit — IBM Quantum open-source SDK. ↗

I · Journalistic and general sources

  • Wired Italia. Feature on the Voynich Manuscript and the reading attempts (context and orientation). ↗
  • La Voce di New York (2024). Article on Eleonora Matarrese and the Alpine Germanic reading of the Voynich. ↗
  • greenMe (2024). Profile of Eleonora Matarrese and her Voynich research. ↗
  • Il Messaggero (2024). Interview with Eleonora Matarrese. ↗

J · Academic Voynich studies

  • Currier, P. (1976). Some Important New Statistical Findings. Voynich Manuscript Symposium, Yale.
  • Zandbergen, R. (2004–2026). Voynich.nu — research database and transcriptions. ↗
  • Kondrak, G. & Hauer, B. (2018). Decoding Anagrammed Texts Written in an Unknown Language and Script. TACL, 6. Tested: match rate = random baseline.
  • Cheshire, G. (2019). Linguistically Dating and Locating Manuscript MS408. Romance Studies (later retracted). Tested: below baseline. ↗
  • Gibbs, N. (2017). The Voynich Manuscript: The Solution. Times Literary Supplement. Tested: below baseline.

K · External convergence — Eleonora Matarrese

  • Matarrese, E. (2023). Beinecke 408 – The Voynich Manuscript, Vol. 1. Kindle Direct Publishing. ↗
  • Matarrese, E. (2024). Beinecke 408 – The Voynich Manuscript, Vol. 2 (Appendices). Kindle Direct Publishing. A philologist specialised in Germanic philology, adjunct lecturer in Phytoalimurgy and Ethnobotany at the University of Bari Aldo Moro; founder and editor of the journal i Skogen!. She has studied Beinecke 408 for over fifteen years by philological and botanical means. According to her thesis, the codex originates in the Carnic Alpine area (Timau/Tischlbongarisch). A geographic convergence with our research, reached by an independent philological method. ↗

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Criticism and fair comment

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