14-12-2019, 11:48 AM
Hi everyone,
It's now becoming much better known that certain glyph sequences are far more common in either Currier A or Currier B, which is good. But I was wondering today: if certain glyph sequences are so much rarer in A or B than in the other, why do they occur in the other at all? Surely if they were (let's say) 'prohibited' by some implicit rule, we shouldn't see any instances of them at all?
And so I started looking at occurrences of popular glyph patterns in the Currier language where they were less popular. My first target was EVA chd (pink) and EVA shd (cyan), not in B (where they are most popular) but in A (where they are far rarer). Here's a voynichese.com query for this:
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What was immediately apparent to me from this was that in Herbal A pages, EVA chd/shd occur most often either in the last word of a line, or in the last word immediately before the text is interrupted by a drawing, e.g.:
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f9r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f15r (twice) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f24r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (four times) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f30r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f47r (twice) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f56r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (twice) f93v
I believe that this sits far beyond the realms of simple probability, and I suspect that what we are seeing here is visual evidence for some kind of systematic contraction in A pages in places on the page where the desired text is larger than the space available for writing. I suspect there may well be many more (and not just EVA -m words).
Has anyone done any tests on letter sequence properties specifically on words that are either line-final or are just before an interrupting drawing?
It's now becoming much better known that certain glyph sequences are far more common in either Currier A or Currier B, which is good. But I was wondering today: if certain glyph sequences are so much rarer in A or B than in the other, why do they occur in the other at all? Surely if they were (let's say) 'prohibited' by some implicit rule, we shouldn't see any instances of them at all?
And so I started looking at occurrences of popular glyph patterns in the Currier language where they were less popular. My first target was EVA chd (pink) and EVA shd (cyan), not in B (where they are most popular) but in A (where they are far rarer). Here's a voynichese.com query for this:
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What was immediately apparent to me from this was that in Herbal A pages, EVA chd/shd occur most often either in the last word of a line, or in the last word immediately before the text is interrupted by a drawing, e.g.:
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f9r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f15r (twice) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f24r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (four times) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f30r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f47r (twice) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f56r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (twice) f93v
I believe that this sits far beyond the realms of simple probability, and I suspect that what we are seeing here is visual evidence for some kind of systematic contraction in A pages in places on the page where the desired text is larger than the space available for writing. I suspect there may well be many more (and not just EVA -m words).
Has anyone done any tests on letter sequence properties specifically on words that are either line-final or are just before an interrupting drawing?
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