Do f58r/f58v show Currier languages evolving?

[nickpelling]

Hi everyone, hope you're all having a good holiday time etc,

I've recently been thinking/posting a lot about Q20's bifolio nesting/ordering, and as part of that have revisited the suggestion that f58r/f58v might have been the original first two pages of Q20. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

However, one thing that emerged from this is that the text on f58r/v is really rather unusual: as examples, you can look at “alal”, "alol", "olal", and "okal", all of which are to be found more often on f58 than on any other single folio. ("arar" is tied with f85r1.) Similarly, f58's fraction of "ed-" words is more than A pages (which have almost none), but much lower than typical B pages. Also quite unlike the Q13/Q20 B pages, f58 has only a single word where the first glyph is "l".

I'm therefore wondering whether f58 might turn out to be a key language page, kind of mid-point in the evolution between Currier A and Currier B.

Has anyone looked specifically at text oddities of f58? I've trawled the web but haven't found anything, but perhaps this is one of those topics that people here have seen things for themselves but not got round to mentioning.

Cheers, Nick