[Blog Post] The 490, and other starting character patterns

[SherriMM]

I added a follow-up post, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. after analyzing 174 pages of the text heavy folios (ignoring the zodiac section and a few others). Of these pages, I found vertical patterns in the first characters of 5 string length or more in 88 pages, or a little more than 50% of the text (with considerable overlap between strings). This includes 22 sets of six-string length, but more notably - two different pairs of seven string length.

Using the Poisson distribution, the chance of this occurring is 0.0067% - meaning the text in the manuscript is not random.

However, "not random" doesn't really tell us much - other than it could be a language, a cipher, or like Rafal suggested above - a scribe that liked to copy from previous pages.