New Voynich Stuff

[Dennis <ixohoxi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	In testing out the Northern Light search engine, 

http://www.northernlight.com/

where list member Andras Kornai currently works, I
found the following Voynichiana 
which I hadn't seen before.  

	First the genuinely worthwhile:

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A very interesting site:

Statistical Analysis of Voynich Manuscript
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~tugba/voynich/

by Tugba Onal Suzek,
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~tugba/
Grad Student at John's Hopkins

	Quite a few statistical analyses, some of which we
haven't done, such as beam search, and languages we
haven't investigated, such as Czech, Hungarian,
Slovene, Estonian, and Romanian.


Another interesting site:
Univariate Terms Project 
INLS 172, Jason Morningstar 

http://www.ils.unc.edu/~mornj/inls172-02.htm

    "To date, no one has attempted to use information
retrieval
formulae to investigate the possibility of an
unconventional (non-
western) underlying structure. It is possible that
measures derived
from this investigation will allow researchers to
dismiss this avenue
of approach altogether. Alternately, the results might
signal a need
for further research. No matter what the outcome, the
groundwork laid
by this project will prove useful for future research
into the
possibility of an logographic source.

    "It is important to note that a correlation with a
polysyllabic
language model does not imply that the manuscript was
necessarily
written in Hawaiian or Yupik - given the commonly
understood
provenance of the Voynich manuscript, this would be
impossible.
However, the 14th through 16th centuries saw the
creation of many
artificial languages in Europe, including those of John
Dee and
Hildegard Von Bingen. It is possible that the
underlying Voynich text
is similarly constructed, but using a novel
polysyllabic structure."

Duplicate Books
http://home.sprynet.com/~nedbrooks/igotbook.htm

mentions this Voynich biblio item  which I don't recall
seeing:

Horizon (Jan'63-Voynich Manuscript), ed. W H Hale,
American Heritage - $10


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and now the somewhat curious:

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The Outsider/Books
http://www.tccorp.com/outsider/to_book.html

Ex Libris Miskatonici

"Joan C. Stanley's excellent reference work takes a
look at some of the more unusual holdings of
Miskatonic University's famed library, detailing their
history and attributes. Titles covered include The
Pnakotic Manuscripts, The Eltdown Shards, The
Celaeno, G'harne, and Sussex Fragments, The
Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan, The Book of
Dzyan, The R'lyeh Text, The Dhol Chants, The
Ponape Scriptures, Codex Dagonensis, Les Cultes
des Goules, De Vermis Mysteriis, Peri ton Eibon
(or Liber Ivonis), Die Unaussprechlichen Kulten,
as well as the notorious Necronomicon. Also
included are information on The Voynich Manuscript
and Praesidia Finium (or Frontier Garrison), as
well as a bibliography and a history of Miskatonic's
library and how it came to acquire these works. This
is an absolutely top-notch resource, wonderfully
written and well organized. A must-have! #NP03,
$7.95, 68pp. "

(I assume Miskatonic University is mythical.  As I
recall, it's a running academic joke.)


Borges and the VMs:
fUSION Anomaly. Jorge Luis Borges
http://www.dromo.com/fusionanomaly/voynichmanuscript.html


http://www.reutel.nl/log/reutellog1-25.html
	in Dutch, although I don't think there's anything
new.  Rene's site is mentioned.

De Andere Verovering van de Hemel
http://www.casema.net/~cold/fre_sp2.htm

	Another in Dutch.  Mentions Kircher's receipt of the
VMs.

Occult, Paranormal or simply Strange, by John Snowman
Harris
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~l39866/oculto.htm
	In Portuguese.  

The Write Brain - Sub Rosa by Lynda Sweetman
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/wb/subrosa.html

	Mention in a short story.

http://www.compleatbellairs.com/commentary.shtml

	"The Fate of the Grinning Ghost brings back Johnny
Dixon, the professor, and lots of old
friends, including a familiar figure from The Trolley
to Yesterday. It also touches on the
Voynich Manuscript, a very real and very baffling book
from the Middle Ages that no one,
to this very day, can read. And, yes, there is an evil
ghost who threatens Johnny's family
-- but even more than that, who could cause a
catastrophe for the whole world. "

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	.... and plenty of Necronomicon, Cthulhu, and
Roger/Francis Baconiana which I'll spare you.

Dennis