For over a century, the Voynich Manuscript (VMS) has been studied exclusively within the frameworks of cryptography, linguistics, and art history, which generated hypotheses about the mystical, astrological, or meaningless nature of the text. This study proposes a radical paradigm shift: the manuscript is examined as highly specialized technical documentation (Standard Operating Procedure — SOP), written in an agglutinative code. Based on the developed morphological matrix Prefix-Root-Suffix, the text was decoded as a sequence of physical and thermodynamic operations. To verify the translation, machine learning methods (TF-IDF Vectorizer) and Sequence Alignment were applied in comparison with a cleaned corpus of historical chemical regulations from the 15th–16th centuries. Algorithmic analysis of three key sections of the manuscript proved the description of the dry distillation of acids (Folio 73r), spagyric extraction and cohobation (Folios 2v, 27r), as well as the macro-chemistry of guild soap-making (Folio 57). The machine extraction of domain-specific N-grams, cross-domain testing, and chronological sequence alignment (up to 94% accuracy) statistically prove that the Voynich Manuscript is not a hoax, but an outstanding monument of medieval industrial standardization, which for the first time in history applied visual interfaces (GUI), algorithmic loops (FOR-loops), and parametric quality control checklists.
Artem Tishin (Sun,) studied this question.