Evidence for 2 rules linking words in Herbal A->B

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The weary scribe Quire 13 could simply start writing nonsense like dpqokyln

I think you are being unfair about quire 13. The language in quire 13 seems to show less variability than in the rest of the manuscript. I tried earlier [ You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ] to give some evidence to support this.

And also if you look at the gallow word suffices ( see attached ) you see that quire 13 gallow word endings are more regular than in other sections. 84.7% are formed from the global top 15 suffices.