(02-07-2025, 11:28 AM)davidma wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I know people have used the KJ Bible before to test for "meaningful" text but maybe a VM-contemporary herbarium or scientific text would be better suited. No idea if there are any readily available transcriptions on the internet though.
There are many... not always easy to find. I had to OCR or transcribe them myself from manuscripts in some instances.
This reminds me of the graph of average Levenshtein distance between words of lines, and the control on Dioscorides with Mattioli's commentary. See this thread: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.