07-05-2024, 06:36 AM
(07-05-2024, 03:42 AM)pfeaster wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.A corollary is that any hapax legomenon would be an invalid word if the page it appears on happened to be missing. It might make more sense to refer to "unattested" words
I fully agree with both. I wrote "the Voynich MS as we have it" for that reason, and the number of unattested, 'valid' words is likely to be quite large. Just the two missing folios f109 and f110 would provide many already.
One way to create likely valid, yet unattested, words is to remove all spaces and then take chunks from the resulting stream and see if these are attested words.
I am not sure if this would be a useful exercise...
I think something similar has been done to check whether label words are mostly words in the plan text, i.e. surrounded by spaces or not.