[Movie] This Famous Medieval Book May Be a Hoax

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the first and last pages of a given quire would be encrypted closer in time together than the first and second pages of the quire.

Yes, there is evidence that suggests that the majority of the manuscript sections were written sheet-by-sheet and not in book page order. The authors could have first written both halves of a side then turned the sheet over and written both halves of the other side. Then when they had enough sheets they could have stacked them in any order, any orientation and stitched them together. This would imply that the text of the manuscript is not in any narrative order, which strengthens the artificial construction hypothesis.

Here is some extra evidence to support this further.

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Pages You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are low in words  ol . These pages are the left and right halves of one side of a sheet. Then later in the quire pages You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are high in  ol . These pages are also the halves of one side. So it looks possibly like You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. were written in one sitting and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. together in another sitting. The author seemed to favour use of  ol on one occasion and not on the other. The distribution of  ol definitely is not regular in BioB2, which is a bit odd given that this is the most frequent word in BioB2 and could be expected to have a useful function in every piece of writing. ( By making 1000 simulations to randomly place the 290 words of  ol within the pages of the quire I was able to use the techniques of hypothesis testing to show that the words are not regularly distributed. )

Something similar is also happening with words in BioB2 with the prefix  qoke . You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. have few such words and are both on one side. The author chose not to use this prefix much on this occasion. Again also these words are not regularly distributed.

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It all seems to suggest that the author was choosing to vary the construction method at each sitting, wasn't following any particular standard. Hence no formal encryption method. No natural language with correct spelling.