Robert Firth's Notes on the Voynich Manuscript

Since December 1991 Robert Firth has issuing a series of working notes on the Voynich MS. They summarize Firth's own thinking about the VMS and indirectly track the ongoing discussion in the voynich@rand.org mailing list. They are presented here in very slightly edited form: some typos have been corrected and Firth has added a few after-thoughts in brackets.



Part 1 [1991 December 16] Key issues
Part 2 [1991 December 16] A&B, evidence for paradigms?
Part 3 [1992 January 2] Non-Voynich text in VMS
Part 4 [1992 January 2] Athanasius Kircher
Part 5 [1992 January 3] Previous decipherments
Part 6 [1992 January 7] Publishing the Manuscript
Part 7 [1992 January 7] Speculative notes on the Subject of the MS
Part 8 [1992 January 8] Clews to the Voynich Script
Part 9 [1992 January 8] Curious Parallel Word Lists
Part 10 [1992 January 29] Comments and Suggestions
Part 11 [1992 January 28] Voynich Vowels
Part 12 [1992 January 30] Spaces in the Voynich Test
Part 13 [1992 January 30] Test of Prosodic Hypothesis
Part 14 [1992 January 31] The -opq Phenomenon
Part 15 [1992 February 3] A Curious Dream
Part 16 [1992 February 4] The Gallows Letters
Part 17 [1992 February 5] Where have all the Consonants gone?
Part 18 [1992 February 11] Voynich Script and Linear B
Part 19 [1992 December 10] Is the Voynich MS written in Arabic?
Part 20 [1993 September 17] Date and Provenance
Part 21 [1995 January 8] Observations on Orthography
Part 22 [1995 January 9] Nature of the MS, Revisited
Part 23 [1995 January 12] More Data on Regularities Suggestive of Grammar
Part 24 [1995 February 6] The Voynich Manuscript as a Trithemian Cipher
Last modified 4 February 1996.

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