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The research aims to apply statistical tests to the text of the Voynich Manuscript to uncover its structural and functional characteristics.

July 29, 2026Open Access

The Pharmacist's Cipher: Five Statistical Tests Supporting a Pharmaceutical Encoding of the Voynich Manuscript (MS 408)

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Randomized trial analyzes morphological patterns in the Voynich Manuscript, indicating a link to pharmaceuticals.

The research aims to apply statistical tests to the text of the Voynich Manuscript to uncover its structural and functional characteristics.
Conducted five statistical tests on the Voynich Manuscript transcription.
Used independent transcribers and non-supervised segmentation algorithms.
Analyzed morphological prefix frequencies and lexical patterns in various manuscript sections.
Morphological prefixes showed stability across transcribers with a 4% divergence.
Demonstrated a 27:0 lexical reuse pattern supporting functional dependencies between text sections.
Identified distinct morphological profiles consistent with pharmaceutical workflows in six manuscript sections.

Alessandro Placa (2026) studied this question.

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