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Unknown Hands at WorkA Skin, Folded · The Plants · Circles and Their Labels

The surviving manuscript

Compare the written forms.

The transcription uses the EVA alphabet to represent Voynich signs. Select a word to find matching forms across the manuscript, or choose a folio to examine its photograph and lines.

Folio reader

Select any word in the transcription.

Line numbers and line types are those of the transcription record. A word is a dot-separated unit in that record.

Reading the display

How to use the transcription.

The EVA alphabet

EVA represents Voynich signs with Latin characters and character combinations, making the writing searchable. Matching words here have the same encoded sequence in the project’s consensus transcription.

Find recurring forms

Select a word to see its frequency and the folios on which it appears. The manuscript’s language remains unidentified; these comparisons concern the arrangement of its written forms.

Where these lines come from

Inspect this dataset

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