[Blog Post] Rightward and Downward in the Voynich Manuscript - Patrick Feaster

[pfeaster]

I wonder if the different behaviours correlated with line-length might be due to Currier A vs B: A paragraphs lines are averagely about 2 words shorter than B lines (maybe because of all the image intrusions in the Herbal). Another possibility could be that they depend on the last line of each paragraph?

Both of the factors you're suggesting seem very likely to have an impact.  I tried generating some plots limited to particular scribes/hands and ignoring all final lines of paragraphs.  The results do look a bit more consistent (or at least less skewed) across different line lengths that way, although the statistical noise is naturally worse due to the reduced data size.