The Voynich manuscript is a 200 + page document filled with abstract images of plants, astrological symbols, bathing women, and more. What is even more fascinating about the manuscript is that it is written in a script that no one... more
The Voynich manuscript is a 200 + page document filled with abstract images of plants, astrological symbols, bathing women, and more. What is even more fascinating about the manuscript is that it is written in a script that no one understands. Its complex mysteries have given it great fame and have sparked many attempts to solve it. The document has been carbon-dated to the early 15th-century (Stolte) and interest in deciphering its code is first recorded as beginning around 1639 (Schuster). Many have tried to decode the document-from World War codebreakers to AI programmers-yet all have failed. We are proposing methods of finding meaning in the manuscript without the need to decipher the symbols within it. We first tested the correlation of words with illustration patterns. Our next method was analyzing words statistically and looking for patterns of the words themselves that related to frequency. The purpose of this paper is to build legitimacy and publicity for the methods we used and to discover general information about the manuscript itself.
