[split] (lack of) scribal mistakes / corrections

[Torsten]

JKP, indeed there are modifications in form of added or modified glyphs. This was the reason for me to write that there are no corrections in form of deleted glyphs. 

The modifications result in interesting patterns. The most common type of correction is the modification of glyphs like 'e' into 's' or 'ch' into 'sh'. Examples for this type of corrections are the modification from 'qoeeedy' into 'qoesedy' in line f82r.P2.24 and the modification of  'chedy chedy' into 'chsdy shedy' in line f75r.P.32. What we see here are corrections by adding a quill stroke and the outcome are unique or rarely used word types. 

This means this type of corrections work the opposite way than expected for a text using natural language. We would expect to see corrections for rarely or unique word types but instead frequently used word types were modified. Moreover, by modifying common word types the repetition within the text was reduced and not increased. It seems that we don't see scraped out words since it was possible to make corrections by adding or modifying glyphs.