This paper proposes a preliminary structural hypothesis for the Voynich Manuscript, Beinecke MS 408. It does not claim decipherment or translation. Instead, it argues that the manuscript may function as a distributed insider reference system, organized through visual registers, object labels, marginal stars, containers, grouped text, and nonlocal reference patterns. The paper identifies three possible registers: a plant/material register, a body/fluid register, and a star/index register. These may have allowed trained users to navigate the manuscript through objects, labels, stars, and grouped entries rather than by linear reading alone.
Gary Cocciolillo (Fri,) studied this question.