24-02-2021, 07:42 PM
Let's not try to clarify any of the increasingly fuzzy plant IDs here. Let's take those that have the strongest correlations based on identification and run them through the second screen, based on their occurrence in medieval literature, with preference to an open C-14 time span of 1400-1450.
Suppose we start with the viola. Has there been a collection of "viola" texts from this time period, that have been compared with the structure of the VMs text?
So in the first part, we need the best plant IDs, but in the second part, it's a problem of text recovery, selection and analysis. In the second part, we need the best comparative text. There is also the need to have some metric for comparison. It doesn't seem that isolated words would be sufficient, but there could be some other pattern.
Suppose we start with the viola. Has there been a collection of "viola" texts from this time period, that have been compared with the structure of the VMs text?
So in the first part, we need the best plant IDs, but in the second part, it's a problem of text recovery, selection and analysis. In the second part, we need the best comparative text. There is also the need to have some metric for comparison. It doesn't seem that isolated words would be sufficient, but there could be some other pattern.