[split] Implications of multiple scribes

[ReneZ]

This is really excellent stuff!

From the close correspondence with my earlier results, I doubt that there is any major error in what you have done.

The added dimension of Lisa's hands brings significant additional information.

One problem in the interpretation of these figures is, that pages with relatively little text will have larger error bars, and we can't see that. The precise location of these pages is not as accurate as those of pages with a lot of text.

With respect to the scribal hands, in my opinion (and based on the PCA plots) scribe 5 has his own little area on the right-hand edge of the language-B pages, while scribes 3 and 4 can hardly be distinguished from each other, but are concentrated below the scribe-2 language-B pages.
I consider this a weak confirmation both of Lisa's hand identification and the suggestion that different scribes generate different text properties. However, the second point is a correlation-type correspondence which may not be causal, but can be the consequence of another external cause/reason.

What this also shows (again) is that the herbal-A pages near the end of the MS, and near the pharma pages, are somewhat different from the other herbal pages and closer to the pharma pages in terms of text properties. That shows that these pages have not become dislocated by pure chance. At least some of them...