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# VOY 2022
International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022

### Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022 (VOY2022)

### Virtual Event, Qrendi, Malta, November 30 - December 1, 2022.

Edited by

### Colin Layfield *
John Abela *

* University of Malta, Faculty of ICT, Department of Computer Information Systems, Msida, MSD 2080, Malta

## 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

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