Yet, it has not been able to "decrypt" the Beinecke MS 408, also refered to as Voynich MS or VMS.
If the VMS is written an unknown "language" it would be a great opportunity to "solve" it if there would be a clear context between a piece of text and a picture explaining its meaning.
Exept the list of labels made by STOLFI (1997, 1998) there has not been a list of labels combined with the pictures nearby.
Is there any context-sensitive usage of labels in the VMS?
Downloading high resolution images ("zoom view") from Homepage of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (2014, about 252 images, 72ppi, JPG, about 1.03 GB in total, URL: http://brbl-zoom.library.yale.edu/viewer/1006074).
Creating a list of labels in EVA Transcription and nearby pictures
Sorting the list by labels
Searching for similarities in the usage of labels and nearby pictures
Most labels occur only a single time but share the same "root"
Complex lables occur only once (e.g. okaldady, porShols, sochorcPhy)
Some labels occur twice or more but in different contexts (e.g. otol, otoky, otody)
As no labels occur nearby the same pictures, there seems not to be any contextual-sensitive usage of labels in the VMS
Labels do not seem to show names of the plants nearby
Labels could show attributes or conditions
Lables could have no meaning at all
Maybe by comparing the paragraphs in the pharmaceutical section with each other and with the herbal sections the meaning of the labels could become clear.
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