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Co-Occurrence Patterns in the Voynich Manuscript

Computation and Language 2016-02-09 v2 Cryptography and Security

Abstract

The Voynich Manuscript is a medieval book written in an unknown script. This paper studies the distribution of similarly spelled words in the Voynich Manuscript. It shows that the distribution of words within the manuscript is not compatible with natural languages.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1601.07435,
  title  = {Co-Occurrence Patterns in the Voynich Manuscript},
  author = {Torsten Timm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.07435},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

19 pages; tables for sections of the VMS added; 'The Towneley plays' as example for English poetry added; revised version

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