Liber Talis: Reconstructing the Original Name and Metaphysical Framework of the Voynich Manuscript

This paper presents original research identifying the probable original title and metaphysical framework of the Voynich Manuscript. Through philological reconstruction of the manuscript’s internal Latin dialect, analysis of marginalia, and examination of the author’s selective use of Tironian Notes, this study argues that the manuscript self‑identifies as Liber Talis, meaning The Book of Suchness. The term Talis, when written in Tironian shorthand, functions not as the ordinary Latin “thus,” but as a metaphysical noun denoting Suchness, a Buddhist concept parallel to medieval Christian notions of essence and ultimate reality. The manuscript also names two internal sections on folio 1r: the Curatorium, a medical‑devotional compendium of curatives and electuaries, and the Codex Constellarium Aster (Scott Dunn, 2025), a cosmological treatise on stellar pathways and star‑humors. This paper outlines the linguistic system reconstructed from the manuscript, presents a full translation of folio 66r, and demonstrates how the manuscript’s medical and cosmological systems are unified under the metaphysical principle of Suchness. The findings suggest that the Voynich Manuscript is a structured compendium with a coherent worldview of Tibetan Buddhism.