Quantitative Paleographic Analysis and Pharmaceutical Stenography Model of the Voynich Manuscript (MS 408)

This research presents a quantitative paleographic and computational analysis of the Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS 408), decoding its text through a standardized operating procedure (SOP) and a pharmaceutical stenography model.Situated within the context of 15th-century apothecary traditions and spagyric hydrotherapy manuals, this study offers a reproducible quantitative parser and Python-based linguistic scripts to resolve longstanding paleographic ambiguities. The findings provide robust structural and statistical evidence for the manuscript's practical pharmacological origin.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2026-11-03
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23926677
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Digital Humanities and Scholarship
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Quantitative Paleographic Analysis and Pharmaceutical Stenography Model of the Voynich Manuscript (MS 408)

Daniel Zahuczki
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Digital Humanities and Scholarship
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Quantitative Paleographic Analysis and Pharmaceutical Stenography Model of the Voynich Manuscript (MS 408)

Daniel Zahuczki
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Abstract

This research presents a quantitative paleographic and computational analysis of the Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS 408), decoding its text through a standardized operating procedure (SOP) and a pharmaceutical stenography model.Situated within the context of 15th-century apothecary traditions and spagyric hydrotherapy manuals, this study offers a reproducible quantitative parser and Python-based linguistic scripts to resolve longstanding paleographic ambiguities. The findings provide robust structural and statistical evidence for the manuscript's practical pharmacological origin.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Digital Humanities and Scholarship
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