Hi all, thx for your responses. I'm sorry to say that I am dramatically busy at the moment and I can't afford to spend much time in the forum.
I'd like to clarify that under the "narration structure" I meant not the low-level grammar structure - such as formation of sentences, - but rather a high-level structure, where each page from a homogenous set of folios would (as we might reasonably expect) demonstrate more or less similar sequence of "descriptive blocks" relating to certain topics, like (most roughly):
1) this plant is called XXX
2) this plant is associated with such and such days of month
3) this plant is associated with such and such stones
etc.
The topics could be any, but the idea is that they would repeat from folio to folio in (roughly) the same sequence.
It's definitely a good idea to start with labels (in fact, that's exactly what I did in my article), but my question refers rather to scientific algorithms that are out there (if any). What I personally did was just what first came to my mind - I introduced line- and paragraph-coordinates for the vords in a page and traced those coordinates for f68r1 and f68r2 labels across the botanical folios. Then I built coordinate hystograms to see if there is any pattern (and I did not find many a pattern).
-Job-:
Nice to see you in the forum. There is a very good idea at the VQP of a query that plots labels; unfortunately, it is not perfect, because I guess not all supposed labels there are really labels. It would be great if this query's adequacy could be improved and, furthermore, if one could plot "thematical" labels selectively (or if they could just be colour-marked).
Marco:
Simple substitution cipher stats and patterns would be the same as for a natural language. Since the VMS is highly unlikely to be a natural language, it is not a simple substitution cipher neither.
I'd like to clarify that under the "narration structure" I meant not the low-level grammar structure - such as formation of sentences, - but rather a high-level structure, where each page from a homogenous set of folios would (as we might reasonably expect) demonstrate more or less similar sequence of "descriptive blocks" relating to certain topics, like (most roughly):
1) this plant is called XXX
2) this plant is associated with such and such days of month
3) this plant is associated with such and such stones
etc.
The topics could be any, but the idea is that they would repeat from folio to folio in (roughly) the same sequence.
It's definitely a good idea to start with labels (in fact, that's exactly what I did in my article), but my question refers rather to scientific algorithms that are out there (if any). What I personally did was just what first came to my mind - I introduced line- and paragraph-coordinates for the vords in a page and traced those coordinates for f68r1 and f68r2 labels across the botanical folios. Then I built coordinate hystograms to see if there is any pattern (and I did not find many a pattern).
-Job-:
Nice to see you in the forum. There is a very good idea at the VQP of a query that plots labels; unfortunately, it is not perfect, because I guess not all supposed labels there are really labels. It would be great if this query's adequacy could be improved and, furthermore, if one could plot "thematical" labels selectively (or if they could just be colour-marked).
Marco:
Simple substitution cipher stats and patterns would be the same as for a natural language. Since the VMS is highly unlikely to be a natural language, it is not a simple substitution cipher neither.