Do Herbal A and Herbal B correspond to differences in imagery?

[geoffreycaveney]

In case it might help someone, here is the spreadsheet I made for quickly checking language, hand, bifolio etc You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Thank you very much Koen, this is very helpful.

The most interesting information to me in this file concerns "Hand 4". In the data table of Languages A & B and Hands 1-5 from the voynich.nu website as I recall, I suppose I would think of it as the "classical" Dialect and Hand identification table, the pages of folios 87, 88, 93, and 96 are identified as Language A and Hand 4. Your spreadsheet on the other hand, which I trust you have made more up-to-date, identifies all of these folio pages as Hand 1! 

This distinction may actually be quite significant, since your spreadsheet -- and I understand that it incorporates Lisa Fagin Davis's analysis -- also identifies the Zodiac pages of folios 67-73 as Language B and Hand 4. These folio pages were unidentified as to Language and Hand in the old table that I referred to above. 

Now if "Hand 4" wrote pages in both "Language A" and "Language B", this information could potentially be quite significant. However, neither the old table nor the updated table, as far as I can determine, shows any case of the same "Hand" writing in both "Languages". But the old table proposed that "Hand 4" wrote in "Language A", while the new table rather asserts that Hand 4 wrote in Language B, but on an entirely different set of pages. I would like to know more about this "Hand 4" person!

Sorry for verging somewhat off-topic from the thread, since I am replying to the data in the spreadsheet. Please let me know if it will be better to move this discussion to a new thread.

Geoffrey