The manuscript that refuses to be read

Chapter 1

The dusty trunk of Villa Mondragone

Chapter 2

Plants that do not exist

Chapter 3

The rules of Voynichese

Chapter 4

Princes, alchemists, and forgers

Chapter 5

The battle of the brains

YOUR GOAL

Master of The manuscript that refuses to be read

Ch 3 · The rules of Voynichese

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007skaty Voynichese Linguistic Structure

Though we can't read a single page, the words still follow Zipf's law.

007skaty Scientists use information entropy to study mysterious undeciphered writing

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007skaty In Voynichese, words repeat up to three times in a row and common letters only appear at the

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A scribe with weirdly perfect handwriting

007skaty A scribe pens strangely perfect, unreadable words into a large open book.

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BETA

007skaty Decode the bizarre drawings to discover why the Voynich manuscript remains completely unreadable.

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Fun Fact

Flawless writing: The Voynich Manuscript contains zero crossed-out words, a feat almost impossible for a scribe writing over 38,000 words.

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Glossary

orthography (noun)
The conventional spelling system of a language. In 1991, Jacques Guy analyzed how specific circular symbols function within the undeciphered text's spelling system.

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Gossip

Do you think the Voynich Manuscript is a real language or a hoax?

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Quiz

What is highly unusual about the handwriting throughout the Voynich Manuscript?

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Approximately how many unique characters make up the alphabet of the Voynich Manuscript?

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What strange word pattern is frequently seen in the text of the Voynich Manuscript?

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In what direction is the text of the Voynich Manuscript written?

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What is the nickname given to the unknown language of the Voynich Manuscript?

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Which of the following is true about punctuation in the Voynich Manuscript?

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How many unique words are estimated to exist in the Voynich Manuscript?

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What did scientists discover when they measured the 'information entropy' of the Voynich Manuscript?

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