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This research aims to analyze the Voynich Manuscript using a new acceptance criterion to test cipher outputs for structural compatibility.

June 13, 2026Open Access

Falsification of the Constructed Cipher Class for the Voynich Manuscript Across Thirteen Folios: A Substrate Grammar Distinguishability Argument at v3 Catalog Scope (1014 Trials) and v4 Substrate Grounded Hartlieb Tradition Scope (351 Trials)

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Randomized trial tests cipher outputs against the Voynich Manuscript, revealing significant structural discrepancies.

This research aims to analyze the Voynich Manuscript using a new acceptance criterion to test cipher outputs for structural compatibility.
Developed a substrate operator grammar scorer to evaluate lexicons in the manuscript.
Conducted 1014 v3 cipher trials and 351 v4 substrate grounded trials against various historical and modern ciphers.
Evaluated Cardano grille configurations for distribution match against random folios.
No cipher produced scores higher than the unciphered manuscript, with output scores ranging from 0.32 to 0.58 for tested ciphers.
The average score gap of 25-45 percentage points between manuscript outputs (0.74-0.98) and cipher outputs indicates structural mismatches.
Falsification of the constructed cipher class hypotheses is confirmed across multiple tested folios.

Honeycutt, Edwin Marshall, III (2026) studied this question.

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