Analysis of patterns at the very start and end of lines, per line type

[tavie]

The body of the text (lines within and ending paragraphs), taken together, makes up about 72% of all words. Its behaviour is fairly steady: lines usually begin with d, s, y, q, or o, and they usually end with y, n, m, l, or r.  

I like to separate the line pattern statistics by scribal section (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).  It shows some important distinctions, e.g. liking of initial o at Line Start is mainly Scribe 1 for Herbal A.  Scribe 2 and Scribe 3 hate it, although Scribe 3 has greater tolerance for the subvariant initial ol.  In contrast, Scribe 3 despises line start q while the others either tolerate or like it.

It can vary per folio  so there's a case for not stopping even at scribal level, but I guess the sample sizes would become far too low.  

Some small rules repeat across the text, such as d being followed by a, c, s, or o at the start of words, and l being followed by a

Voynichese has a habit of the second glyph in a line start word often being the glyph that is underrepresented as an initial.  The best example is probably the ch glyph, which massively underperforms at line start across the main sections as a word-initial glyph but simultaneously overperforms as a word-middle glyph in clusters like initial ych and initial dch. It's conspicuous at line start but I think something not completely dissimilar might also be going on in the top row of paragraphs as well.