I have a research project on the Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke 408). I regularly teach a class on the manuscript and this has resulted in several papers. Note that apart from the 2020 Annual Review paper, these are all working papers/preprints and will probably remain that way. (https://campuspress.yale.edu/clairebowern/voynich-resources/ has a more general list of resources on the manuscript.)
- 2022: Bowern, Claire and Daniel E. Gaskell. “Enciphered after all? Word-level Text Metrics are Compatible with some Types of Encipherment.” Proceedings http://ceur-ws. org ISSN 1613 (2022): 0073.
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2022: Gaskell, Daniel, and Claire Bowern. “Gibberish after all? Voynichese is Statistically Similar to Human-Produced Samples of Meaningless Text.” VOY. (International Voynich Conference)
- 2021: Claire Bowern and Luke Lindemann: The Linguistics of the Voynich Manuscript. Annual Review of Linguistics 2020 Vol. 7:285-308 [official version here; preprint here]
- 2021: Rachel Sterneck, Annie Polish, and Claire Bowern. Topic Modeling in the Voynich Manuscript. https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02858; https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/006068
- 2020 Luke Lindemann and Claire Bowern. Character Entropy in Modern and Historical Texts: Comparison Metrics for an Undeciphered Manuscript. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14697; https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/005522
I have also given a few talks on general aspects of the manuscript, including for Yale’s Alumni Academy here, and (with Lisa Fagin Davis and Ray Clemens) here.
Please note that I get a great deal of Voynich related email (and the occasional phone call) and cannot usually respond to requests to evaluate theories. Resending them will not increase the chances. Please post them to the voynich.ninja forum where you’ll likely get a response. Here is a Bluesky thread which has a set of criteria for evaluating Voynich decipherment theories.
