19-05-2020, 06:52 PM
Herbal B is illustrative of the whole issue: the subject should be the same as Herbal A but the writer is the same as Q13. The Herbal B specifically differs from Herbal A in percentage of [ol], which cannot be a subject difference, yet Q13 tracks Herbal A in the percentage of [ol] so it cannot be a scribal difference.
It's almost as though Scribe 1 wrote Herbal A while Scribe 2 wrote Q13, both using the same spelling/dialect/system, and later Scribe 2 wrote Herbal B using a different system. Yet it can't be that simple as Scribe 1 must have changed their system to write Pharma as that showed differences from Herbal A (which aren't demonstrated here).
It's almost as if a scribe, when they sat down to write a section, just made changes to the system. Neither subject nor dialect are to account for the difference.
It's almost as though Scribe 1 wrote Herbal A while Scribe 2 wrote Q13, both using the same spelling/dialect/system, and later Scribe 2 wrote Herbal B using a different system. Yet it can't be that simple as Scribe 1 must have changed their system to write Pharma as that showed differences from Herbal A (which aren't demonstrated here).
It's almost as if a scribe, when they sat down to write a section, just made changes to the system. Neither subject nor dialect are to account for the difference.
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