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Fifty Books and One Unread One

Written 2026-09-26. Claims re-read against their sources on 2026-09-27: 9 checked, 8 confirmed, 0 wrong, 1 unverifiable. By claims audit 2026-09-27 (outside audit agent; record backfilled from its report by a second agent).

Outside audit of the 09-26 batch, 2026-09-27. Reader check from an empty directory: the published verifier alone passed 39/0; with all 194,808 CATMuS rows downloaded independently, --catmus passed 43/0 and all 50 comparison books recomputed exactly. data/ZL3b-n.txt is byte-identical to the current voynich.nu file, and the pre-registration scoring agrees with the data. The report counted 12 claims (11 confirmed, 1 unverifiable); it itemizes eight confirmed entries (some bundle several claims) and the unverifiable one, and only those are listed here.

Claims

• CONFIRMED Currier's seminar quotes ("the line is a functional entity...", the 85% symbol, "almost 25,000 words ... not one single case", "It in no way implies the existence of any underlying language") and his US Navy dates 1929-1962
  https://www.voynich.nu/extra/curr_main.html : verbatim; the Navy dates match Wikipedia
• CONFIRMED Bennett's figures via Zandbergen: "fantastically low values"; second order 3.01-3.37 against 2.22
  https://www.voynich.nu/a2_char.html : matches
• CONFIRMED Lindemann and Bowern: 311 Wikipedia languages; Hawaiian (2.77) nearest; full-text h2 2.072 and 2.114
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14697 : matches (both h2 values appear)
• CONFIRMED Radiocarbon: first half of the 15th century, 1404-1438, dating the parchment not the writing
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript : the Hodgins letter of 17 Feb 2009 says "first half of the 15th Century" and "dated parchment, not when it was written on"; the 1404-1438 range is not in its extractable text but Wikipedia confirms it
• CONFIRMED The ZL transliterations are CC0
  https://www.voynich.nu/roadmap.html : matches
• CONFIRMED Timm and Schinner, Cryptologia 44(1) 2020; Montemurro and Zanette, PLoS ONE 8(6) e66344 (2013)
  https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1080/01611194.2019.1596999 : both confirmed via Crossref
• CONFIRMED Davis, Manuscript Studies 5(1) 164-180 (2020), five scribes, scribe 1 writing A and the others B
  https://api.crossref.org/ (Crossref record of the article) : citation confirmed; the A/B split is consistent with the $H/$L tags in the transliteration
• CONFIRMED CATMuS/medieval has 194,808 rows and is CC BY 4.0
  https://huggingface.co/datasets/CATMuS/medieval : via the HF datasets-server
• UNVERIFIABLE Davis's own wording on which scribe wrote A and which B
  repository.upenn.edu : returned 403 to WebFetch; curl got only a JavaScript shell with no article text

What was done

• [declined] MINOR "704 of its 1,880 lines" against data/manuscripts.json's lines: 1866 for Mazarine Inc. 59: left as is; the report found both counts correct for what they count (raw CATMuS rows against lines that have words), so neither is an error.