[Blog Post] Rightward and Downward in the Voynich Manuscript - Patrick Feaster

[pfeaster]

If you divide a scribe's pages in two parts, are those parts more similar to each other than to different scribes? This would be a good control.

Great idea -- thanks!  Here are results for scribes 2 and 3 with pages divided into recto and verso groups (which seemed like the fairest way to divide them, although I suppose the recto/verso distinction could conceivably have some bearing of its own on positional patterns).  The same phenomena are plotted as before: [qo]+gallows vords in blue versus [o]+gallows vords in green on the top, [daiin] on the bottom.  Top and bottom images represent consistent combinations of scribe and page group.  Can you tell which top-and-bottom pairs go with which scribes?

   

(I have some thoughts about how this went but will wait to share them until others have had a chance to weigh in.)

Fine print: Scribe 2 is represented by folios 26, 31, 33, 34, 39, 40, 43, 46, 50, 55, and 75-84, while Scribe 3 is represented by folios 58, 94-95, 103-114, and 116.