papers & articles

AMANCIO Diego R., ALTMANN Eduardo G., RYBSKI Diego, OLIVEIRA Osvaldo N. Jr. & COSTA Luciano da F. (2013) Probing the Statistical Properties of Unknown Texts: Application to the Voynich Manuscript.

http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0067310&representation=PDF

ASHBROOK Joseph (1966) Roger Bacon and the Voynich Manuscript. Sky and Telescope, April 1966, pp.218-219

BALANDIN Arcady & AVERYANOV Sergey (2014) The Voynich manuscript. New approaches to deciphering via a constructed logical language.

http://mw.lojban.org/files/docs/voynich.pdf

BANASIK Zbigniew [ic.unicamp.br] (2004-06-01) Zbigniew Banasik's alphabet for the VMS.

BARABE Joseph G. [editor] (2009) Materials Analysis of the Voynich Manuscript. McCrone Associates Inc., 1 April 2009

http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/voynich_analysis.pdf

BARLOW Michael (1986) The Voynich Manuscript - By Voynich? Cryptologia 10 (October 1986) pp.210-216

BAX Stephen (2013) The Voynich manuscript – informal observations on some linguistic patterns. University of Bedfordshire.

http://stephenbax.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/The-Voynich-manuscript-observations-on-linguistic-patterns-v3.pdf

BAX Stephen (2014) A proposed partial decoding of the Voynich Script. University of Bedfordshire.

http://stephenbax.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Voynich-a-provisional-partial-decoding-BAX.pdf

BENNETT William Ralph (1976) Scientific and Engineering Problem Solving with the Computer. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

BIRD J. Malcom (1921) The Roger Bacon Manuscript: Investigation into its History, and the Efforts to Decipher it. Scientific American Monthly 3 (June 1921): 492-96

BRUMBAUGH Robert Sherrick (1974) Botany and the Voynich 'Roger Bacon' Manuscript Once More. Speculum 49 (1974), 546-48

BRUMBAUGH Robert Sherrick (1975) The Solution of the Voynich 'Roger Bacon' Cipher. Yale Library Gazette 49 (1975): 347-55

BRUMBAUGH Robert Sherrick (1976) The Voynich 'Roger Bacon' Cipher Manuscript: Deciphered Maps of Stars. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 39, pp. 139-150, 1976.

BUONAFALCE Augusto (2007) Review of 'The Curse of the Voynich. The Secret History of the World's Most Mysterious Manuscript' by Nicholas Pelling. Cryptologia, Vol. 31, p.361-362

CARTER Albert Howard (1946) Some Impressions of the VMS.

http://voynich.net/reeds/docs/carter.txt

CARTON Raoul (1929) Le Chiffre de Roger Bacon. Révue d'Histoire de la Philosophie 3 (1929): pp.31-66, 165-79

CASANOVA Antoine (1999) Méthodes d'analyse du language crypte: une contribution a l'étude du manuscrit de Voynich. These pour obtenir le grade de Docteur de l'Universite. Paris 8. March 19, 1999.

CHAM Brian & JACKSON David (2015) Introduction to the Curve-Line System (CLS).

https://briancham1994.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/curve-line-system/

CHILD James R. (1976) The Voynich Manuscript Revisited. NSA Technical journal 21 (1976): pp.1-4. Released by NSA on 23 April 2002 pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/tech_journals/voynich_manuscript_revisited.pdf

CHILD James R. (2007) Again, the Voynich Manuscript.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090616205410/http://voynichmanuscript.net/voynichpaper.pdf

COMEGYS John Davis (2013) The Voynich Manuscript: Aztec Herbal from New Spain.

http://voynichms.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/VMSAztecHerbal-JDComegys.pdf

CONS Louis (1922) Un manuscrit mystérieux: Un traité scientifique du treizième siècle, attribué a Roger Bacon. L'Illustration 159 (Number 4118, 4 Feb 1922) p. 112.

CONS Louis (1928) Newbold's Trail. Saturday Review of Literature 5 (Oct. 27, 1928), p.292

CORRALES Scot (2000) The Books of the Damned: Fact or Fiction? FATE July, 2000.

CURRIER Prescott H. (1976) Papers on the Voynich Manuscript. in: D'IMPERIO Mary E. [editor] (1976) New Research on the Voynich Manuscript. Proceedings of a Seminar. Washington, D.C., 30 November 1976. Transcription of Jacques Guy and Jim Reeds, January 1992.

http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/mirror/reeds/currier/p.ps/

DILAS Jonathan (2005) Das Voynich Manuskript.

http://www.matrixseite.de/Texte/Jonathan_Dilas_Das_Voynich_Manuskript-Essay.pdf

D'IMPERIO Mary E. (1978a) An Application of Cluster Analysis to the Question of 'Hands' and 'Languages' in the Voynich Manuscript. PI Informal No. 3, (June 1978, S-216,867) and NSA Technical Journal, Vol. XXIII, No. 3 (Summer 1978), pp. 59-75. Released by NSA on 23 April 2002 pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/tech_journals/Application_of_Cluster_Analysis.pdf

D'IMPERIO Mary E. (1979) An Application of PTAH to the Voynich Manuscript. p. 65-92. NSA Technical Journal Vol. XXIV, No.2, Spring 1979. Released by NSA on 06 March 2009 pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/tech_journals/application_of_ptah.pdf

EPHRON H. [1] (1977) A burning question in re the Voynich MS. The Cryptogram. 43 (1977). March-April, pp.22,46-48; May-June,pp.49,51-52,72

FRIEDMAN Elizabeth Smith (1962) The Most Mysterious Manuscript Still Mysterious. Washington Post, August 5, Section E, pp. 1,5

GAREL Angelica (2007) The Voynich Manuscript through an Intersemiotic Approach. A translation by Angelica Garel.

http://journals.sfu.ca/wl404/index.php/book/article/viewFile/29/31

GARLAND Herbert (1921) The Mystery of the Roger Bacon Cipher MS. Bookman's Journal and Print Collector (London) 5, (October 1921), pp.11-16

GARLAND Herbert (1932) Notes on the Firm of W. M. Voynich. Library World. 34 (April 1932) pp.225-8

GIBSON Dan [nabataea.net] (2003) The Nabatatean Connection to the Voynich Manuscript.

GILSON Étienne (1928) Révue critique d'histoire et de littérature. Paris, 62 (August 1928) pp.378-383

GOSLEE Sarah [sarahgoslee.com] (2006) Basic Analyses.

GOSLEE Sarah [sarahgoslee.com] (2006-10-22) Patterns of Co-occurrence.

GOSLEE Sarah [sarahgoslee.com] (2006-10-22b) Paragraph-Initial Gallows.

GOSLEE Sarah [sarahgoslee.com] (2006-10-22c) Latin Texts.

GROSSMAN Lev (1999) When words fail: The struggle to decipher the world's most difficult book. Lingua Franca 9, No. 3 (April, 1999), pp. 9-15

GUY Jacques B. M. (1991) Statistical Properties of Two Folios of the Voynich Manuscript. Cryptologia, XV, Issue 4, pp. 207-218

GUY Jaques B. M. (1991a) Letter to the Editor Re Voynich Manuscript. Cryptologia, XV, Issue 3, pp. 161-166

GUY Jaques B. M. (1991b) Vowel Identification: an old (but good) algorithm. Cryptologia, Vol. XV, Nr. 3, July 1991, p. 258-262

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/guySukhotin.pdfjaques

GUY Jaques B. M. (1997) The distribution of signs c and o in the voynich manuscript: Evidence for a real language? Cryptologia, Vol. 21, Issue 1, 1997

GUZMAN Gregory S. (1979) Review of Brumbaugh's Most Mysterious Manuscript. Historian 42 (November 1979) p 120-1

HARNISCH Larry [2] (1976) The Voynich Manuscript. The Cryptogram. 43(1976) May-June,pp.45,62-63; July-August, pp.69,74-77

ITO Akinori (2002) Observation of left and right entropy in VMS.

http://www.geocities.co.jp/Technopolis/7220/voy/paper021209.pdf

ITO Akinori (2002a) Effects of line context and prefix 'qo' upon contextual deviation of Voynich words.

http://www.geocities.co.jp/Technopolis/7220/voy/paper021217.pdf

ITO Akinori (2003) Relationship between red and green words and their characters.

http://www.geocities.co.jp/Technopolis/7220/voy/paper030313.pdf

JASKIEWICZ Grzegorz (2011) Analysis of Letter Frequency Distribution in the Voynich Manuscript. Proceedings of the International Workshop CS&P, September 28-30 2011, Pultusk, Poland, p.250-261

http://csp2011.mimuw.edu.pl/proceedings/PDF/CSP2011250.pdf

JOHNSON Charles (1929) Review of Newbolds Cipher of Roger Bacon. English Historical Review 44 (Oct 1929) pp. 677-8.

KELLNER Jutta (2014) Code geknackt – Das Voynich Manuskript ist lesbar – Mäzen gesucht.

http://www.temmay.de/Voynich%20gel%C3%B6st.pdf     

KENT Roland G. (1921) Deciphers Roger Bacon Manuscripts. Pennsylvania Gazette. 19 (May 27, 1921) pp.851-853

KNIGHT Kevin & REDDY Sravana (2011) What We Know About the Voynich Manuscript. Proceedings of the 5th ACL-HLT Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, pages 78–86, Portland, OR, USA, 24 June 2011. 

http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W11/W11-1511.pdf

KNIGHT Kevin & REDDY Sravana (2013) The Voynich Manuscript. Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium, Skilling Auditorium, Stanford Campus, March 13, 2013

            http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/130313.html

KNIGHT Kevin (2009) The Voynich Manuscript. Presented at MIT, September 2009

http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/voynich.pdf

KNIGHT Kevin (2013) Decipherment. ACL Tutorial, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, August 2013

KNOX Sanka (1962) 700-Year-Old Book For Sale; Contents, in Code, still Mystery. New York Times, 18 July 1962, p 27, col 2

KRAUS H. P. (1962) Catalogue 100. Thirty-five manuscripts: including the St. Blasien psalter, the Llangattock hours, the Gotha missal, the Roger Bacon (Voynich) cipher ms. New York: H.P. Kraus, 1962.

KRISCHER Jeffrey P. (1969) The Voynich Manuscript. Harvard University.

LANDINI G. & Zandbergen R. (1998) A Well-kept Secret of Medieval Science: the Voynich Manuscript. Aesculapius. No. 18, July 1998, pp. 77-82

LANDINI Gabriel (1998) A Well-kept Secret of Mediaeval Science: the Voynich manuscript. Journal of the University of Birmigham Medical and Dental Graduates Society

LANDINI Gabriel (2001) Evidence of linguistic structure in the Voynich Manuscript using spectral analysis. Cryptologia.

LANDINI Gabriel (2003-03-08) On the structure of the labels and the function of the character. 

LANDMANN Erhard (2007) The Voynich-Manuscript.

http://elifonaot.q32.de/cms/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=pdf_en:thevoynichmanuscript.pdf

LIEBERT Herman W. (1970) The Beinecke Library Accessions 1969. Yale Library Gazette, 44 (April 1970) pp.192-3

MANLY John Matthews (1931) Roger Bacon and the Voynich MS. Speculum VI, July 1931, pp. 345-391

MCKAIG Betty (1970) The Voynich Manuscript-Cipher of the Secret Book. (Interview with Leonell C. Strong). North County Independent, Oct. 7, 1970. Reprinted courtesy Independent Newspapers, Inc., San Diego, California

MCKENNA Terence K. (1988) Has the World's Most Mysterious Manuscript Been Read at Last? Gnosis Magazine, 7 (Summer 1988) pp.48-51

MCKEON Richard (1928) Roger Bacon. The Nation 127 (August 29, 1928) pp.205-6

MONTEMURRO Marcelo A. & ZANETTE Damiàn H. (2013) Keywords and Co-Occurrence Patterns in the Voynich Manuscript: An Information-Theoretic Analysis. PLOS Online, June 2013, Volume 8, Issue 6, e66344

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0066344

MORNINGSTAR Jason (2001) Gallows variants as null characters in the Voynich Manuscript. Master's thesis, University of North Carolina.

MOSES Montrose J. (1921) A Cinderella on Parchment: The Romance of the New 600 Year-Old Bacon Manuscript. Hearst's International 1921, pp.16-17, 75

NEWSOM Eugene (1995) A Split in the Mystery Curtain.

O'NEILL Hugh (1944) Botanical Remarks on the Voynich MS. Speculum 19 (1944): 126.

PALMER Sean B. [inamidst.com] (2014) Voynich MS glyph position stacks.

RAJKARNIKAR Manish (2004) Analyzing Voynich Manuscript.

http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/Courses/CS5761-SPR04/Projects/rajk0007.pdf

REDDY Sravana & KNIGHT Kevin (2011) What we know about the Voynich Manuscript.

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sravana/slides/voynich_latex_slides.pdf

REEDS Jim (1994) William F. Friedman’s transcription of the VMS

http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/mirror/reeds/docs/wff.ps

REEDS Jim (1994-06-18) Combined version of all First Study Group transcriptions found in William F. Friedman Collection, Marshall Library, Lexington, Virginia. http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/mirror/reeds/docs/FSG.txt

REEDS Jim (1995) William F. Friedman's Transcription of the Voynich Manuscript. Cryptologia XIX 1995.

REEDS Jim [ic.unicamp.br] (1995a) A Provisional Checklist of Voynich MS pages.

http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/mirror/gillogly/checklist

ROBERTS R. J. & WATSON Andrew G. [Editors] (1990) John Dee's Library Catalogue. London: The Bibliographical Society, 1990.

ROUSH Peter & SHI Bryce [eleceng.adelaide.edu.au] (2014) Semester B Final Report 2014 - Cracking the Voynich code.

RUGG Gordon & AYLWARD Laura (2004) Emergent properties in text generation using tables and grilles.

http://www.scm.keele.ac.uk/staff/g_rugg/voynich/emergent3a.pdf

RUGG Gordon (2004) An elegant hoax? A possible solution to the Voynich manuscript. Cryptologia, XXVIII (1), January 2004, pp. 31-46

RUGG Gordon (2004a) The mystery of the Voynich Manuscript. Scientific American Magazine. July 2004, pp.104-109

RUGG Gordon [searchvisualizer.wordpress.com] (2013) Visualizing textual structures in the Voynich Manuscript.

RUYSSCHAERT Jose (1959) Codices Vaticani Latini 11414 - 11709. Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, 1959.

SARTON George (1921) Review of Manly's Critique of Newbold's Decipherment. Isis 4 (October 1921) p 404.

SARTON George (1928) Review of Newbold's Cipher of Roger Bacon. Isis 11 (1928) pp. 141-5

SAZONOV Vladimir [voynich.naobum.de] (2003-03-10) Qo- and o-Prefixes in VMS.

SAZONOV Vladimir [voynich.naobum.de] (2003-03-12) Voynichese Syntax.

SAZONOV Vladimir [voynich.naobum.de] (2003-03-18) Analysis of Word Dependency in VMS.

SAZONOV Vladimir [voynich.naobum.de] (2005) Calendar Solution of the Star Section.

SAZONOV Vladimir [voynich.naobum.de] (undated) Prefix-Suffix correlations.

SCHAEFER Bradley E. (2000) The Most Mysterious Astronomical Manuscript: Baffled researchers are looking for astronomical clues to help decipher a medieval manuscript. Sky & Telescope 100, 5 (November, 2000)

SCHINNER Andreas (2007) The Voynich Manuscript: Evidence of the Hoax Hypothesis. Cryptologia, Vol. 31, Issue 2, p.95-107

SEYMOUR Ian (1992) Thirteenth Century Magic Glass. Astronomy Now. June 1992. p.59

SHERWOOD Edith (2010) Analysis of Radiocarbon Dating Statistics in Reference to the Voynich Manuscript.

http://www.edithsherwood.com/radiocarbon_dating_statistics/radiocarbon_dating_statistics.pdf

SMITH Emma May [agnosticvoynich.wordpress.com] (2015-03-08) The Equivalence of a and y.

SMITH Emma May [agnosticvoynich.wordpress.com] (2015-03-09) The Existence of y Deletion.

SMITH Emma May [agnosticvoynich.wordpress.com] (2015-03-09a) Low Level Word Structure.

SMITH Emma May [agnosticvoynich.wordpress.com] (2015-03-10) High Level Word Structure.

SMITH Emma May [agnosticvoynich.wordpress.com] (2015-03-12) Digraphs with l.

SMITH Emma May [agnosticvoynich.wordpress.com] (2015-03-19) What sounds should be expected.

SMITH Emma May [agnosticvoynich.wordpress.com] (2015-03-24) Are o, a, y vowels.

SMITH Emma May [agnosticvoynich.wordpress.com] (2015-03-29) Linefirst Words.

SMITH Emma May [agnosticvoynich.wordpress.com] (2015-04-05) Sonority Sequencing Principle.

SMITH Emma May [agnosticvoynich.wordpress.com] (2015-06-21) A Few Thoughts on Grove Words.

SMITH Emma May [agnosticvoynich.wordpress.com] (2015-06-24) Linefirst Transformations - Gallows.

SMITH Emma May [agnosticvoynich.wordpress.com] (2015-09-21) Bench Gallows.

SMYTH Frank (1992) A script full of secret. & The uncrackable code. in: Mysteries of Mind, Space & Time: The Unexplained, pp. 3062-3069. Westport, Connecticut: H. S. Stuttman, Inc. (Originally published in: The Unexplained, UK)

STALLINGS Dennis J. [geocities.com] (1998) Second-Order Entropies of Voynich Texts.

STEELE Robert (1928) Science in medieval Cipher. Nature 122 (13 October 1928), pp.563-65.

STOKLEY James (1928) Did Roger Bacon Have a Telescope? Science News Letter 14 (Sept. 1, 1928), pp.125-26, 133-34

STOLFI Jorge [ic.unicamp.br] (1998-10-30) Interlinear16e6.evt[3]

STRONG Leonell C. & MCCAWLEY E. L. (1947) A Verification of a Hitherto Unknown Prescription of the 16th Century. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (Baltimore, Md.) 21 (November-December 1947), pp.898-904

STRONG Leonell C. (1945) Anthony Askham, the author of the Voynich Manuscript. Science, n.s. 101 (15 June 1945): 608-9

SUZEK Tugba Onal & HAJIC Jan [cs.jhu.edu] (2001) Statistical experiments.

TAIZ Lincoln & TAIZ Saundra Lee (2011) The Biological Section of the Voynich Manuscript: A Textbook of Medieval Plant Physiology? Chronica Horticulturae, Vol. 51, Nr. 2, 2011, p.19-23

http://www.actahort.org/chronica/pdf/ch5102.pdf

TEAGUE Robert (2009) Cracks in the Ice. Toward a Translation Method for the Voynich Manuscript.

http://www.as.up.krakow.pl/jvs/library/4-5-2008-01-12/Cracks%20in%20the%20Ice.pdf

THEROUX Michael (1994) Deciphering the Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World. in: Journal of Borderland Research, Vol. L (50), No. 2, 2nd Quarter 1994

https://borderlandsciences.org/journal/vol/50/n02/Theroux_on_Voynich_Manuscript.html

TILTMAN John H. (1967) [4] The Voynich Manuscript. The Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World. Slightly expanded version of a paper delivered to the Baltimore Bibliophiles, 4 March 1967. NSA Technical Journal Vol. XII, No. 3, July 1967, pp.41-85, and Special Linguistics Issuee II. Released by National Security Agency (NSA) on 23 April 2002 pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/tech_journals/voynich_manuscript_mysterious.pdf

TIMM Torsten (2014) How the Voynich Manuscript was created.

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1407/1407.6639.pdf

TORESELLA Sergio (1996) Gli erbari degli alchimisti. in: Arte farmaceutica e piante medicinali. Erbari, vasi, strumenti e testi dalle raccolte liguri. [Ed. Liana SAGINATI]. Pacini, Pisa. pp.31-70.

TUCKER Arthur O. & TALBERT Rexford H. (2013) A Preliminary Analysis of the Botany, Zoology, and Mineralogy of the Voynich Manuscript. HerbalGram, American Botanical Council, Vol. 100, p.70-75

http://cms.herbalgram.org/herbalgram/issue100/HG100-voynich-online.pdf

VOYNICH Wilfrid M. (1921) A Preliminary Sketch of the History of the Roger Bacon Cipher Manuscript. Proceedings of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Philadelphia, pp.415-30, Philadelphia

WASTL Jürgen & FEGER Danielle (2014) VM408 folio86v ‘The Rosette Map’: Elements of a mappa mundi and a map of the Elements.

http://figshare.com/articles/VM408_folio86v_The_Rosette_Map_Elements_of_a_mappa_mundi_and_a_map_of_the_Elements/903756

WILLIAMS Robert L. (1999) A Note on the Voynich Manuscript. Cryptologia, 23 (October, 1999), pp. 305- 309

ZANDBERGEN Rene [voynich.nu] (2011-02-26) From digraph entropy to word entropy in the Voynich MS.

ZANDBERGEN Rene [voynich.nu] (2011-02-26a) Currier A and B / two different languages?

ZANDBERGEN Rene [voynich.nu] (2014-08-02) The Currier languages revisited.

ZANDBERGEN Rene [voynich.nu] (2015-10-04) Pre-1960's tentative herb identifications.

ZIMANSKI C. (1970) William Friedman and the Voynich Manuscript. Philological Quarterly.

ZYATS Paula, HODGINS Gregory W. & BARABE Joseph G. (2012) The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript. Collaboration Yields New Insights

http://cool.conservation-us.org/coolaic/sg/bpg/annual/v31/bp31-15.pdf