Cheshire Gerard. The Language and Writing System of MS408

Romance Studies, tandfonline, 2019. — 39 p.Dr. Gerard Cheshire has completed his doctorate, expounding an adaptive theory for human belief systems, and is now a Research Associate with University of Bristol. The solution to the codex of MS408 was developed over a 2-week period in May 2017 after he came across the manuscript for the first time whilst conducting research for his PhD dissertation. Having deciphered the writing system, he subsequently realized the significance of the manuscript to Romance linguists and Mediaeval historians, and so decided to publish the information.
From the abstract:
Manuscript MS408 (Voynich) is unusual in a number of respects:
It uses an extinct language.
Its alphabet uses a number of unfamiliar symbols alongside more familiar symbols.
It includes no dedicated punctuation marks.
Some of the letters have symbol variants to indicate punctuation.
Some of the symbol variants indicate phonetic accents. 6. All of the letters are in lower case.
There are no double consonants.
It includes diphthong, triphthongs, quadriphthongs and even quintiphthongs for the abbreviation of phonetic components.
It includes some words and abbreviations in Latin. As a result, identifying the language and solving the writing system required some ingenuity and lateral thinking, but both were duly revealed.