Voynich Manuscript Glyph Atlas

The Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS 408) is a 15th-century codex written in an undeciphered script, accompanied by illustrations of plants, astronomical diagrams, and bathing figures. Despite over a century of cryptanalytic effort, neither the script nor the language has been conclusively identified.

This atlas uses the European Voynich Alphabet (EVA) transcription system developed by René Zandbergen and Gabriel Landini. Each glyph is assigned a VGA ID following the convention V{tier}{category}{number}, where tiers range from basic characters (Tier 1) through rare pedestal forms (Tier 4), and categories include Basic (B), Gallows (G), Bench (N), Ligature (L), Rare (R), and Pedestal (P).

All glyph shapes are rendered as inline SVG paths based on published paleographic descriptions. The seven candidate alphabet theories represent the major decipherment hypotheses from published research.

Data source: Glyph catalog derived from EVA transcription corpus analysis. Built with the sean-cheren Wolfram analysis toolkit.