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What is it? • Medieval illustrated manuscript • Approx. 235 pages on vellum material • Color drawings of plants, nymphs, stars, etc. • Approx. 38,000 words written in an unknown script • Undeciphered!!! Meaning is unknown • Currently owned by Yale University
38,000 words of text
Page 1 and 2: the Voynich Manuscript Kevin Knight
Page 3: Outline • Voynich Manuscript - VM
Page 7 and 8: Many pictures look like grafting. T
Page 9 and 10: The Pictures: Astrological What is
Page 11 and 12: The Pictures: Pharmacological medic
Page 13 and 14: One-Page Letter Tucked Into VMS Rev
Page 15 and 16: History of Voynich Manuscript 1576-
Page 17 and 18: History of Voynich Manuscript 1864
Page 19 and 20: History of Voynich Manuscript 1576-
Page 21 and 22: Newbold System • Example: a n n
Page 23 and 24: William Newbold, Polymath, PhD UPen
Page 25 and 26: PCC89 … apparent ciphertext Let
Page 27 and 28: Newbold Decipherment 1300 real ciph
Page 29 and 30: Transcription BSC8AE OPCC9 4OE FCC8
Page 31 and 32: Introduction to Astrology and Its U
Page 33 and 34: Alphabet: Currier/D’Imperio C S Z
Page 35 and 36: Alphabet: Currier/D’Imperio C S Z
Page 37 and 38: Most Frequent Words count word coun
Page 39 and 40: Features of the Text • 115 (out o
Page 41 and 42: • Newbold (1921) Cryptogram • M
Page 43 and 44: “ Writing in Tongues ” suggeste
Page 45 and 46: How? • Gordon Rugg (Scientific Am
Page 47 and 48: BUT: what if Voynich knew that? BUT
Page 49 and 50: Substitution Cipher ingcmpnqsnwf cv
Page 51 and 52: Substitution Cipher e e e the ingcm
Page 53 and 54: Substitution Cipher e he e of the i
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Substitution Cipher e he e of the i
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Cryptodict abacdefb ACADEMIC abacde
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Generative Models Spanish letter tr
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Hypothesize Other Source Languages
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Unknown Source Language Input Best
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Generative Models • Okay, that di
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Generative Models Trigram model ove
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Generative Models Trigram model ove
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English Voynich a � b � a � b
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Generative Models Bigram model over
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600 400 200 0 Generative Models Voy
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600 400 200 0 Generative Models Voy
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Captain Currier’s “Two Language
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Focus Further Experiments on Voynic
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a c e i b f g h j d 10-class taggin
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10 Classes of words: Voynich-B Tags
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• Voynich Manuscript Conclusion -
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