16-05-2021, 12:50 PM
(15-05-2021, 08:22 PM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In the meantime I can share the following chart.
This shows the percentage of k-initial paragraphs per quire, with some additional breakdowns by sections and Currier languages below. The Currier language information is taken from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
The counts for the chart were done manually against the available scans.
Overall, there are 77 k-initial paragraphs out of the total of 750 paragraphs, or 10,3% on average. On the other hand, according to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., k-initial vords (1155) represent only ~3% of approx. 38k vords in the VMS. In other words, paragraph-initial vords tend to begin with k much more often than a general average vord does.
As it can be seen from the chart, there is no strong correlation between the percentage of k-initial paragraphs and the thematical section (herbal, astro etc.) or the Currier language.
Thank you for all of this research, Anton. It is very interesting.
Brief comment: You state that there is no strong correlation between the percentage of EVA [k]-initial paragraphs and the thematical section, but it appears to me that all of the highest percentages of EVA [k]-initial paragraphs occur in quires in the Herbal section(s): Q1, Q4, Q7, Q17. But then it is curious that you indicate that in Q15, the next highest percentage of them, such paragraphs occur in the Pharmaceutical section portion of the quire rather than in the Herbal section portion of it. (And I suppose we should also note the 16.7% occurrence of such paragraphs in the Astronomical section portion of Q8.) However, in general such paragraphs clearly seem to appear most frequently in the Herbal section(s), although only in certain quires.
Geoffrey