Character Classes

[ThomasCoon]

I agree with you on almost all of these. My research in the VMS centers around copying the text by hand (I have 100 pages copied) so I see these patterns.

I think the Gallows make up a group because of the patterns of letter around them - they may even be the same character:

[k] [t] [p] [f]

[ok] [ot] [op] [of]

[ko] [to] [po] [fo]

[yk] [yt] [yp] [yf?]

[kch] [tch] [pch] [fch]

[ckh] [cth] [cph] [cfh]

[ke] [te] [pe] [fe]

(At the same time, there is nothing in the text like: [kr] [tr] [pr] [fr], or [kl] [tl] [pl] [fr], [kiiin], [tiin], etc.)


So these four appear in the same set of combinations and also don't appear in the same set of combinations.

Mary D'imperio says that the "conclusion seems inescapable" that [p] = [f] because they correspond in the famous repeating strings on page f57r.


Also, one thing I wonder about: [ot] and [ok] appear frequently, but so do [yk] and [yt]:
I've been wondering they are the same, and the author uses two variants to disguise the text.