Inhomogeneities

[Torsten]

How abnormal are paragraphs/pages/quires? Does homogeneity improve at the end? All pages of Q13 and Q20 look normal to me relative to their quire, without all the weird spikes in frequencies seen in the early herbal pages, but this should be checked.

Equally distributed glyphs or words doesn't exists in the VMS. (See also my You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. about the distribution of vords containing the sequences 'ed', 'ho', and 'in' in the VMS.) 

See for instance the vord <qokeey>. It is the most common vord on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and the third most frequent vord in Quire 20 (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). However <qokeey> is only frequently used on some of the pages in Q20. On three pages <qokeey> ist even absent. You can choose every vord you like the behavior is always the same: "No obvious rule can be deduced which words form the top-frequency tokens at a specific location, since a token dominating one page might be rare or missing on the next one." (Timm & Schinner 2019, p. 3). See also You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.@Github.

Instances of <qokeey> in Q20:

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f103r 26 instances (most common word) f103v 11 instances f104r 1 instance f104v 5 instances f105r 3 instances f105v missing f106r 1 instance f106v 4 instances f107r 1 instance f107v 12 instances (third frequent word) f108r 9 instances f108v 21 instances (second most common word) f111r 21 instances (most common word) f111v 10 instances f112r 12 instances (most common word) f112v 5 instances f113r 4 instances f113v 3 instances f114r missing f114v missing f115r 1 instance f115v 1 instance f116r 9 instances

However, all pages containing at least some lines of text do have in common that pairs of frequently used words with high mutual similarity appear (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., p. 3). For instance on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. alongside <qokeey> also the words <qokeedy>, <okeey> and <qokey> exists (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).