22-08-2023, 02:23 AM
(14-08-2023, 01:45 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Finally, yes, I have seen statistical evidence for text properties in between A and B, but these are text properties, not handwriting properties and we don't yet know that the two can be safely linked to each other.
You also write "Herbal-B and Bio-B are quite different". You write further about the Recipes section: "The pages that also appear to be in Bio-B 'dialect' are those of ff. 103, 107, 108, 111,112 and 116, which are three bifolia. The other three bifolia with ff. 104, 105, 106, 113, 114 and 115 use a more varied vocabulary" [Zandbergen You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.].
Doesn't that mean that your observations indicate that the Astro/Cosmos pages 'bridge the gap' between Herbal A and Herbal B and the Recipes pages 'bridge the gap' between Herbal B and Bio B? If not, where exactly do you see a contradiction between your observations and our claim of a "gradual evolution of a single system from 'state A' to 'state B'"? [Timm & Schinner 2020, p. 6]
How would you explain the following token frequencies for the most common tokens in Herbal A within each section, if not as a gradual decrease?
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Herbal (A) Pharma (A) Astro+Cosmo Herbal (B) Stars (B) Bio (B)
daiin 403 (5.0%) 99 (3.9%) 48 (1.0%) 72 (2.2%) 122 (1.1%) 84 (1.2%)
chol 228 (2.8%) 45 (1.8%) 25 (0.5%) 13 (0.4%) 62 (0.6%) 14 (0.2%)
chor 155 (1.9%) 24 (0.9%) 10 (0.2%) 6 (0.2%) 19 (0.2%) 1 (0.0%)
s 133 (1.6%) 26 (1.0%) 16 (0.3%) 23 (0.7%) 12 (0.1%) 13 (0.2%)
shol 104 (1.3%) 11 (0.4%) 8 (0.2%) 11 (0.3%) 24 (0.2%) 18 (0.3%)
dy 102 (1.3%) 17 (0.7%) 31 (0.6%) 35 (1.1%) 11 (0.1%) 52 (0.8%)
cthy 98 (1.2%) 3 (0.1%) 4 (0.1%) 3 (0.1%) 1 (0.0%) 1 (0.0%)
sho 96 (1.2%) 8 (0.3%) 6 (0.1%) 2 (0.1%) 12 (0.1%) (0.0%)
chy 95 (1.2%) 6 (0.2%) 11 (0.2%) 11 (0.3%) 11 (0.1%) 9 (0.1%)
dain 80 (1.0%) 13 (0.5%) 7 (0.1%) 11 (0.3%) 53 (0.5%) 47 (0.7%)