Voynich Workbench

Experimental research environment for comparative analysis of Voynich transcriptions.

Welcome to the Voynich Workbench

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 used for research purposes only.

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.