Repetition of words

[Mark Knowles]

I would also make a point here, since we are talking about repetitions, regarding character repetition. It is extremely rare to find languages with such long consecutive repetitions of characters (e.g. ???ooooooooolar (if it is really a word, so werid with the dots after and before...), eeee appears in eight words, hhh in five words,  rrr in one word). While word repetition may sometimes be stylistic, character repetition within words makes the word itself different. I know I could write difeeeeeeeeerent and you will still understand it as different, as if I were screaming, but this is a modern style, and I doubt it was intended that way in the 15th century.

Some of the symbol repeats such as the ccc could well be individual glyphs as we see glyphs like this in diplomatic ciphers of the period. Other repeats could indicate that they are filler words.