Scribes and authorship of the text

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Statistics from RF1a-n:

Herbal A (including labels):
Pages: 95
Words: 7791 (82 / page)
Characters (with spaces and uncertain spaces, without line endings): 44651 (470 / page)

Herbal B (including labels):
Pages: 32
Words: 3414 (107 / page)
Characters (with spaces and uncertain spaces, without line endings): 19985 (625 / page)

If f65 was included in Herbal B, it would add 2 pages with short texts, only 47 words, 268 characters:
Pages: 34
Words: 3461 (102 / page)
Characters (with spaces and uncertain spaces, without line endings): 20253 (596 / page)

It would make more sense if the text was gibberish. Then several people could work on the same fake manuscript but have some degree of freedom. The rule would be - fill the page, don't make it look empty. So the small letter guy would need more text to do the job.

Yes, but small letter guy (Herbal B, mostly) was writing small letters even when the available space was far more than sufficient, as in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f50r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. etc. so he was not just filling all the available space.