The Voynich Manuscript as a Syllabic Performance Score: A 5-Layered Statistical Model for Medieval Italian Laude and Psalmodic Recitation

For over a century, alphabetic and cryptographic approaches to deciphering the Voynich Manuscript (MS 408) have consistently failed due to its unique statistical anomalies—namely, an artificial Zipfian distribution, strict positional grammar, and unprecedented word repetition. This final report presents a structural paradigm shift, demonstrating that the Voynich text is not a semantic cipher, but the physical trace of a first-order Markov chain generated by a mechanical 4-disk combinatorial device (volvelle).Version 2.1 features a complete English translation of the technical analysis, a 100% density 4-disk volvelle structural diagram, a detailed scribe's operational manual, and validation against 380,000 Monte Carlo simulation iterations. The model successfully matches all key statistical metrics (including second-order entropy H_2 = 2.10-2.17, doublet frequencies, and average word lengths), confirming MS 408 as a non-semantic artifact produced through physical combinatorial rotation.