Experimental research environment for comparative analysis of Voynich transcriptions.

This experimental web application provides a unified interface for exploring multiple transcription layers of the Voynich Manuscript, and for applying a growing collection of computational analysis tools.

Use the sidebar on the left to switch between the interactive viewer, text and token analysis modules, structural analysis, and more. The Settings page at the bottom lets you control how text is displayed and how certain parser-level assumptions are handled.

What This Tool Provides

A unified interface to view and compare multiple historical transcriptions of each folio (H, C, F, etc.).
A suite of planned statistical and structural analysis tools to apply to the entire manuscript or selected scopes.
Configurable display options for handling punctuation-like markers, paragraph boundaries, and transcriber-specific quirks.
Planned support for exporting structured subsets of the corpus for external tools and reproducible workflows.

Alpha Warning

This is an early alpha build. The underlying data parser and analysis modules are under active development and verification. All results should be treated as provisional and personally verified.

Limitations & Caveats

Many analysis modules listed in the menu are placeholders for future functionality.
Parsing rules for the LSI data are evolving and subject to change as edge cases are discovered and corrected.
Data visualizations and statistics produced here should always be cross-checked and independently verified before use in published research.
This application is a research tool and may contain bugs or inconsistencies. Always refer to primary sources for definitive information.

Global Settings

These preferences are stored locally in your browser. Adjust them and click Save to apply.

Transcription Display

Default Transcriber

Show inline LSI tags (e.g., <!x>)

Parser Behavior

Include tokens with splats/fillers in analysis
(v101: * ; others: ! ? % → all normalized to *)

When splats are included, treat * as:
(Default: strip splat characters, e.g., dai*n → dain)

Structural effect of tags in parsing
Tags are removed from tokens; this controls whether they create spaces in the text stream. Structural and spacing tags (including conditional space tags like <!-> and line/paragraph markers) can be treated as spaces. All multiple spaces are collapsed to a single space and leading/trailing spaces are trimmed.

Rendering & Theme

Theme

About the Voynich Workbench

This is not a theory site.

This is a measurement instrument.

If you are looking for a translation, an alphabet, a cipher key, aliens, Gaelic monks, Cathars, or your favorite YouTube personality’s latest “solved it” moment — you are already in the wrong place.

The Voynich Workbench does not explain the manuscript. It interrogates it.

Every page here exposes real, recomputable metrics: entropy, positional structure, legality constraints, neighborhood topology, autocorrelation, burstiness, and cross-corpus comparisons. You choose the assumptions. You choose the scope. The system produces the numbers. No screenshots. No cherry-picking. No “trust me.”

There are over 5.4 × 10²³ possible charts you can create here. That is not a metaphor. That is arithmetic.

This implies two things:

First, you will never “see all the charts.”

Second, if your claim collapses under a single configuration, it collapses.

The Voynich Manuscript has survived centuries of speculation because most arguments were qualitative, selective, and unfalsifiable. This workbench exists to remove that luxury.

You do not need a PhD to use this site. You do need to be willing to accept the results.

Bring your hypotheses. Bring your favorite comparison text. Bring your objections.

But before you do, ask yourself one simple question:

Be honest. How big a hard drive you got?

Because the numbers are not running out anytime soon.