VOY 2022
International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 32 papers submitted for the double-blind 2 phase peer-review to this conference. Out of these, 16 short papers were accepted for this volume.
• Programme Committee
  

Keynote Talks

• Transliteration of the Voynich MS Text
  René Zandbergen
• Voynich Paleography
  Lisa Fagin Davis

Day 1 - Session 1 (Moderated by Prof. John Abela)

• Fingerprinting Gibberish: A Quantitative Comparison of the Voynich and Sloane MS 3188
  Alexander Boxer
• Above and Beyond Voynich Canopies: Tents as a Recurring Motif in Beinecke MS 408
  Koen Gheuens, Cary Rapaport
• 'I beg your grace to suppress this chapter or else to have it written in secret letters': The Emotions of Encipherment in Late-Medieval Gynaecology
  Keagan Brewer
• Gibberish after all? Voynichese is Statistically Similar to Human-Produced Samples of Meaningless Text
  Daniel Gaskell, Claire Bowern

Day 1 - Session 2 (Moderated by Mr. Michael Rosner)

• Demystifying the Scribes behind the Voynich Manuscript using Computational Linguistic Techniques.
  Kevin Farrugia, Colin Layfield, Lonneke van der Plas
• Enciphered after all? Word-level Text Metrics are Compatible with some Types of Encipherment
  Claire Bowern, Daniel Gaskell
• Polygraphia III: The Cipher that Pretends to be an Artificial Language
  Jürgen Hermes
• An Analysis of the Relationship between Words within the Voynich Manuscript
  Andrew Caruana, Colin Layfield, John Abela

Day 2 - Session 1 (Moderated by Prof. Lonneke van der Plas)

• Crux of the MATTR: Voynichese Morphological Complexity
  Luke Lindemann
• A new Transliteration Alphabet brings new Evidence of Word Structure and Multiple "languages" in the Voynich Manuscript
  Massimiliano Zattera
• Examining the history of Voynich Glyphs using Phylogenetic Methods
  Katie Painter, Claire Bowern
• Rightward and Downward Grapheme Distributions in the Voynich Manuscript
  Patrick Feaster

Day 2 - Session 2 (Moderated by Prof. Claire Bowern)

• Seven Habits of Highly Eccentric Paragraphs
  Tavi Stafford
• From Voynich to the Beinecke, the Trail of Ownership
  Farley Katz
• The Voynich Manuscript Compared with Other Encrypted Books
  Klaus Schmeh, Elonka Dunin
• Book Transactions of Emperor Rudolf II 1576-1612. New Findings on the Earliest Ownership of the Voynich Manuscript
  Stefan Guzy