I propose that the Voynich was written using an analogue instrument, like a parchment Volvella or an astrolabe made of three concentric disks that a scribe rotated and aligned to record instructions.
Visual demonstration of how folio 80v was generated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUjTA0bH8MM
The 3Disk Design (The 6-26-8 rule)
Imagine an instrument with three wheels spinning inside each other:
The outer ring (Action): It has only 6 positions. It defines what the operator is going to do (Boil, Grind, Prepare...).
The central ring (Matter): It has 26 positions. These are the basic ingredients (Water, Lime, Salt, Oil...).
The inner ring (Context): It has 8 positions. It tells us how the process ends or the environment required (In a sand bath, purified to white, etc.).
How do only 26 ingredients create the whole manuscript? The entire manuscript, with its 31,000+ words, is built using exactly the 26 units from that central ring. There are no strange symbols outside this wheel.
How is it possible to generate so many different "words"? Because the scribe didn't just note one ingredient per line. They kept the Action and Context disks fixed, and rotated the central disk several times to chain ingredients together. Just like our standard alphabet creates entire dictionaries, chaining 3 or 4 ingredients on that wheel generates thousands of possible combinations. Each "word" in the Voynich is simply the visual sequence of the ingredients the scribe aligned during a single turn.
The Secret: The disks lock into each other
What makes this instrument fascinating is that it doesn't let you make mistakes. The disks have physical stops, like notches or sliding plates, that interlock.
For example, if you select the action "Boil" on the outer ring, the central wheel hits a physical stop and won't let you turn to the ingredient "Direct fire," because it makes no chemical sense to boil fire. The scribe wasn't freely choosing which symbols to draw on the parchment, they were simply recording the only path the wheels allowed them to travel. The strange text repetitions we see in the manuscript are just the natural "jumps" of a physical disk spinning on its axis to the next available slot.
Not an alien language, just abbreviated Latin
The symbols on these disks aren't made up. If you look at Adriano Cappelli's Lexicon Abbreviaturarum (the standard dictionary of medieval paleography), you'll find that the morphology of these 26 symbols exactly matches the abbreviations used by 15th-century apothecaries.
The glyph we usually call qo is actually the standard abbreviation for Coquere (Boil). The letter a is Aqua. The symbol that looks like ''ch'' is Calx Hydrata (Slaked lime).
The Voynich is the operations diary of an apothecary or alchemist using a rotating tool to ensure their proportions and protocols were strictly followed.
If I am wrong, prove it. I believe this is more serious and scientific than a Chinese theory haha!
Full documentation, JSON structure and phyton models: https://zenodo.org/records/18751206