A key to understand the VMS

[Torsten]

You found vertical repeats as well. Yes, I can see them but the relation between vertical repeats and the horizontal is imo a far fetch: for example the words have not been aligned vertically.  But perhaps I will run stats on those as well in the future.

There is simply no need to align them vertically. Moreover if the words where aligned vertically as you suggest this would make it a bit too obvious that the scribe was only copying words already written. 

See for instance the following section on page f80v. There are 5 instances of [olkain], one instance of [solkain] and one instance of [oltain]. The word [olkain] exists 33 times for the VMS. There are only 3 instances of [solkain] and only 2 instances of the word [oltain]. Something like that happens all the time for the VMS. This is what I mean with horizontal repeats. In my eyes this pattern is obvious anyway.

   

BTW: The position of [solkain] is in line f80v.P.32. In the same line also the word [qolkain] can be found and in line f80v.P.34 there is an additional instance of [olkain] [see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.]. A possible source for the first [olkain] is the sequence [ol kain] in [pshol kain] in line f80v.P27.