VMs: F85_86=VMS codepage?

["Jorge Aveleira" <jorvms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

The provoking, long-lasting impenetrability shown by the VMS against well
equipped, capable and qualified minds, should have persuaded many
challengers that some unusual formula was used to build the ciphertext. A
formula that per chance yields more or less similar output strings for
different inputs and conversely, depending on the alternate coding module
that is in use could be the answer? That would produce a ciphertext both
accurate and ambiguous, could account somehow for the low overall entropy of
the VMS, repeated words, the absence of disclosing correlations with likely
plaintext languages, and should be within the context available to a
medieval encipherer. The issue of average "shorter" words would still
remain, though.

If a codepage exists inside the VMS for reading it, following some scheme
similar to Steve Ekwall's proposal, it could perhaps be the f85_86 rosettes
(Sephiroth?) composition page, as the spatial arrangement is fitting. I feel
particularly inclined to explore that, as I regard that composition as a
crucial component of VMS.  How about comparing/correlating the "words" in
the text rings around the rosettes with the rest of the VMS vocabulary,
section by section, Currier's A and B languages in separate (hmmm... two
encipherers picking codemodules differently from the same codepage ?), page
by page, paragraph by paragraph, including and excluding Eva's f,k,p,t, ch?
I do not have the means for doing that properly myself.

Nick recently made available at http://www.voynich.info/phpwiki/ fair
reproductions of the elements in the f85_86 rosettes folio. Stolfi's pages
are currently a standard source for the transcribed VMS text, however they
do not include yet the text rings around rosettes NE, E and SE. I also did
not find a transcription either at Landini's or Reeds' pages. Could some of
the VMS list members tell me if there is available somewhere a transcription
of those three text rings?

Nick,

Nothing is missing, the bottom right rosette appears at Map 5:
http://www.voynich.info/phpwiki/map5-b.tif . A composition showing the whole
thing in one single picture would still be of assistance, though. Thanks for
the scans and the hint to Steve Ekwall's work.

Thank you all,
Jorge Aveleira

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