Relations among pattern studies?

[Torsten]

Or a device that's responsive to input, or a device that builds cumulatively on its previous output.

Indeed, a simple device available in medieval times that's responsive to input (like page boundaries) and that builds on its previous output.

Could you list a few of the most deviant pages or bifolios that your work has shown to have the most locally distinctive word forms?  We could then take a look at the matrices for them and see how -- and how far -- they differ from the norm.

To illustrate my point I have used three different colors to mark all instances of vords containing the sequences 'ed' (plum), 'ho' (green), and 'in' (yellow):  You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

The pages are obviously not independent of one another, since pages colored in similar way tend to be adjacent to one another in the manuscript. However if we look into the details the distribution of vords appears much more complicated.

There are at least two kinds of pages using herbal illustrations. There are herbal pages dominated by green + yellow (Currier A).
But there are also herbal pages dominated by plum + yellow (Currier B). However, some herbal pages in Currier A also contain vords colored in plum (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) and herbal pages in Currier B frequently contain vords colored in green. One page even contains a paragraph colored in green + yellow and another paragraph colored in plum + yellow (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).

For the stars section it is even possible to point to pages dominated by vords colored in plum (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) whereas the very next page is dominated by 'yellow' vords. Even another page within the very same section contains an unusual high number of vords colored in green (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).

Therefore I would suggest that you start by building a transition table for the stars section.

Note: The idea of using state transitions was already published by Donald Fisk back in 2017. (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 2017) For more details, see his You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and the discussion linked You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..