Time to retire Currier languages?

[Emma May Smith]

Marco, you make some excellent points.

I suppose the minimum we should do is separate by scribe and section. I have the word counts for each section as:

Hand 3, Stars: 10766
Hand 1, Herbal: 8481
Hand 2: Balneology: 6956
Hand 4: Cosmological: 3083
Hand 1: Pharmaceutical: 2586
Hand 2: Herbal: 2361
Hand 2: Rosettes (rear): 1855
Hand 3: Herbal: 1336
Hand 5: Herbal: 929
Hand 2: Stars: 129
Hand 4: Rosettes (front): not counted

Given that some of the Hand 1 Herbal pages should be excluded (anything after f57), then by far the largest single part of the text is Hand 3 Stars. Hand 1 Herbal (early) would be next, followed by Hand 2 Balneology. I think three different examples of text provides us with the ability to compare and contrast.