The Voynich manuscript: Symbol roles revisited

In this article, we employ simple descriptive methods in order to explore the peculiar behavior of the symbols in the Voynich Manuscript. Such an analysis reveals a group of symbols which are further analyzed for the possibility of being compounds (or ligatures), using a specifically developed metho...

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Autores principales: Matlach, Vladimír, Janečková, Barbora Anna, Dostál, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8794160/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35085266
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260948
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description In this article, we employ simple descriptive methods in order to explore the peculiar behavior of the symbols in the Voynich Manuscript. Such an analysis reveals a group of symbols which are further analyzed for the possibility of being compounds (or ligatures), using a specifically developed method. The results suggest the possibility that the alphabet of the manuscript is a lot smaller, and steganographic type of encoding is proposed to explain the newly revealed properties.
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spelling pubmed-87941602022-01-28 The Voynich manuscript: Symbol roles revisited Matlach, Vladimír Janečková, Barbora Anna Dostál, Daniel PLoS One Research Article In this article, we employ simple descriptive methods in order to explore the peculiar behavior of the symbols in the Voynich Manuscript. Such an analysis reveals a group of symbols which are further analyzed for the possibility of being compounds (or ligatures), using a specifically developed method. The results suggest the possibility that the alphabet of the manuscript is a lot smaller, and steganographic type of encoding is proposed to explain the newly revealed properties. Public Library of Science 2022-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8794160/ /pubmed/35085266 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260948 Text en © 2022 Matlach et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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