[rustynails]

Does anyone have an analysis of the drawings? How accurate are they? What about the detail of the human anatomy, is it comprehensive? Is there any meaning in the series of diagrams? These questions won't decode the text, but they may give an indication of the quality of the text. Based on a WAG, I'd say the book's text is not particularly informative, it is merely the "challenge" that generates the interest.

[hobs]

Exactly the challenge. I am pretty sure that I read they took http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law and applied it to the distrobution of words/letters and found that it does not match up with what people would call a language.

[ianterrell]

> The word frequency distribution follows Zipf’s law, which is a necessary (though not sufficient) test of linguistic plausibility.

From http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/voynich-11.pdf, linked in another comment.

[hobs]

Oh reaaally. Interesting, I will read up because I had heard the exact opposite, and clearly my source is wrong! (my brain)