30-08-2023, 10:20 PM
(30-08-2023, 07:08 PM)Torsten wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The Zodiac/Astronomy section contains exceptionally many labels, and it has long been known that the <qo> bigram is underrepresented in labels. Therefore the Zodiac/Astronomy section was neither attributed to Currier A or B. Additionally, there are other Voynich manuscript folios not attributed to "Scribe 4" that exhibit exceptionally low <qo> and <ed> frequencies (see for example the bifolio f1r, f1v, f8r, f8v). [see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. p. 4]If the VMS is codified based on n-grams there is an easy reason for it. N-grams with <qo> are in general larger than n-grams without it.
In the limited space of a label, with more than one way to codify, a n-grams without <qo> will be preferred.