Part One:

"We speak with Maria Papathanassiou about Stephanos of Alexandria: the last known Platonist/Aristotelean philosopher trained at Alexandria, a politically-connected courtier at Herakleios' Constantinople, a Christian, an astrologer, an alchemist, and more."

https://shwep.net/podcast/philosophy-and...ia-part-i/


Part Two:

"In Part II we explore two of Stephanos' works: the astrological piece entitled Apotelesmatikē pragmateia, with its katarchic ‘Horoscope of Islam’, and his influential, vexing, and beautiful alchemical work, On the Great and Holy Art of Gold-Making."

https://shwep.net/podcast/the-horoscope-...a-part-ii/

By Jessica Scott Dunn

"This paper argues that the botanical folios of the Voynich Manuscript-identified internally as part of the Curatorium corpus of Liber Talis-have been structurally misinterpreted for over a century. Rather than functioning as conventional plant monographs, these folios operate as positional anchors within an ordinal-humoral healing system."

https://www.academia.edu/164801530/The_P...Manuscript

Transliteration of the Voynich MS text

By René Zandbergen

"The mysterious writing in the Voynich MS has resisted all attempts to translation or decryption, in spite of the increasing number of attempts over the last decades. What has become clear is that the text has a number of unusual properties, and increasingly advanced text and language analysis techniques have been deployed in order to get to the bottom of this mystery. The basis for all these attempts is the existence of a computer-readable version of the text-a transcription, or rather a transliteration as we don't even know the alphabet of this writing. This paper deals with a number of aspects of the transliteration of the Voynich MS text."

https://www.academia.edu/103494451/Trans...ch_MS_text

By Torsten Timm

"The five-scribe hypothesis proposed by Davis (2020c) has become a foundational premise in recent Voynich Manuscript research, influencing linguistic analysis, topic modeling, and public understanding of the manuscript. This paper subjects the hypothesis to critical examination. Building on the continuous evolution framework established in Timm (2026a), which demonstrated that the manuscript's text evolves gradually from one state to another rather than partitioning into discrete systems, this paper shows that: (1) Davis's diagnostic criteria-the glyphs <k > and <n>-fail on empirical examination, with both variants appearing on nearly every page of the manuscript; (2) the five scribes reduce to pre-existing categories, with Scribes 1 and 2 replicating the Currier A/B language distinction and Scribe 4 identifying pages with labels rather than running text; (3) the chain of apparent independent confirmation is circular, with each study inheriting assumptions from the previous one; and (4) the handwriting variation is more parsimoniously explained as continuous evolution of a single hand alongside the documented continuous evolution of the vocabulary. The conclusion is that discrete scribe categories, like discrete language categories, are imposed on a continuum."

https://www.academia.edu/164902241/One_H...Manuscript

Алхимические практики Фридриха Благочестивого (Alchemical Practices of Frederick the Pious)

By Ivan A . Sakharchuk

"In the article, we make an attempt to grasp the nature of the alchemical practices of Frederick III the Pious, Elector Palatine of the Rhine, which is based on fragments of his correspondence with François Hotman that have reached us."

https://tinyurl.com/2wbb79wr

In Russian. 
DeepL translator here: 
https://www.deepl.com/en/translator

Transmission and Transmutation: George Ripley and the Place of English Alchemy in Early Modern Europe

By Jennifer Rampling

"Continental authors and editors often sought to ground alchemical writing within a long-established, coherent and pan-European tradition, appealing to the authority of adepts from different times and places. Greek, Latin and Islamic alchemists met both in person and between the covers of books, in actual, fictional or coincidental encounters: a trope utilised in Michael Maier's Symbola aureae mensae duodecim nationum (1617). This essay examines how works attributed to an English authority, George Ripley (d. c. 1490), were received in central Europe and incorporated into continental compendia."

https://www.academia.edu/4760830/Transmi...ern_Europe

The Challenge of Analyzing a Dynamic Text: Why the Voynich Manuscript Resists Conventional Interpretation

By Torsten Timm

"The Voynich Manuscript (MS 408, Beinecke Library, Yale University) has resisted all attempts of conventional interpretation for over a century. This paper argues that the persistent failure of cryptographic, linguistic, and statistical approaches stems from a shared foundational assumption: that the manuscript’s text was produced by a static system—whether a fixed cipher, a natural language grammar, or a stable encoding scheme. Analysis of the manuscript’s word network and vocabulary evolution reveals that this assumption is untenable."

https://www.academia.edu/164728008/The_C...rpretation

The Shadow of Anodos: Alchemical Symbolism in Phantastes

By Aren Roukema

"Many critics of 'Phantastes', George MacDonald’s seminal work of fantasy, have seen the novel as primarily symbolic, with little to no central narrative structure. However, an analysis of previously unidentified alchemical symbolism makes it clear that the novel has a cohesive narrative based on the alchemical journey of Anodos, the central character, toward spiritual unification with the immanent God. This paper places MacDonald's use of alchemical symbolism in the historical context of medieval and early modern alchemy in order to illustrate the nature and purpose of the novel's alchemical structure."

https://www.academia.edu/2613838/The_Sha...Phantastes

5- VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT ANALYSIS SERIES; GRAPHOPHONEMIC ORIGIN Graphophonemic Structure and Entropy Analysis Article Series V/XXVI

By Ahmet Barış Kestel

"This article examines the writing system typology of the Voynich Manuscript (MS 408) through entropy analysis."

https://www.academia.edu/164670872/5_VOY...ies_V_XXVI

Charissime Fili: The Transmission of Alchemical Science from the Manuscript to the Press: the Pseudo-Lullian Diagrams

by Fabio Spadini

2018, MHNH 


"The massive presence of alchemical diagrams in the Testamentum of Pseudo Ramon Llull makes it possible to analyse in a pertinent way the development of a diagrammatic thought aimed at the teaching of alchemical science. The analysis of the key figures of a manuscript kept at the Kantonsbibliothek Vadiana in St Gall allows not only to understand the general functioning of the alchemical figures, but also to underline the methodological changes due to the passage from the manuscript to the printed book."

https://www.academia.edu/43084422/Charis...n_Diagrams