18-11-2021, 07:37 PM
Let me turn it around: what if the reason for requiring different scribes is also the reason why their texts are different?
For example, different source languages could result in different "grammatical" properties. One scribe does the parts in Latin, another in Greek and a third in the vernacular. Or one scribe works on a text that is heavily abbreviated, contains lots of numbers, or anything else that might influence the resulting ciphertext.
I guess what I'm saying is that it's possible that properties of the source text caused differences in the ciphertext, and different scribes might have specialized in different source texts.
For example, different source languages could result in different "grammatical" properties. One scribe does the parts in Latin, another in Greek and a third in the vernacular. Or one scribe works on a text that is heavily abbreviated, contains lots of numbers, or anything else that might influence the resulting ciphertext.
I guess what I'm saying is that it's possible that properties of the source text caused differences in the ciphertext, and different scribes might have specialized in different source texts.