Re: VMs: Why VMs spaces behave like normal word spaces

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- PK#01 <pklist01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've been following the interesting dicussions -
> spaces and labels - good tangible subjects.
> Do you already know this website?

Vermont MS 2, it keeps coming up, probably 
because it is well represented on the web.

> I was looking at "labels in illustrations in
> medieval manuscripts" in
> Google. I think we should form a general idea about
> how labels were used in
> manuscripts, before we start to decode or to
> statistically analyze them. But
> labels should give the best attack strategy.

I'd like to point out again that the labels in
the zodiac section (i.e. the about 300 labels near
the nymphs) do not follow Zipf's first
law. The distribution can't really be distinguished
from a flat distribution. The MS main text does
follow Zipf's law so these labels are really 
something different or 'special'. This is one
of my favourite arguments why the Voynich MS cannot
be just a plain hoax, (i.e. meanlingless randomly
generated text).

Here's another picture with herbs and labels:

http://www.voynich.nu/img/extra/indian.gif

Cheers, Rene


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