copy of an older, barely legible manuscript?

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If a sequence like this in f108v.8 lists versions of the same word:
ysheedy okeedy oteedy qokeedy okeedy okeedy
what was the scribe thinking, in your opinion?

Anomalies like these are consistent with the hypothesis that the text is meaningless, fabricated using some scheme to give the text a semblance of foreignness. The writer probably was having a bit of fun. Knowing that the text would be undecypherable he did not give too much importance to correctness.

Words ending edy occur very frequently in the language B pages. The following maps show where they occur in the BioB2 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 them ( ~33% ). f79r, 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 them. The statistical variance of their distribution in BioB2 is just too high for us to be able to say that edy words appear randomly throughout this section.

It suggests that the writer was being choosy, favouring edy on same pages and not in others. To back up this suggestion note that the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and f83 pages are on both sides of the same sheet. Also that f79r, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and f80v, together with You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. which is also low, are the four pages on the sides of the same sheet. And since it now appears likely that the manuscript was written sheet-by-sheet and not in book page order it suggest that 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 consecutive order possibly in one sitting, and f79r, f79v, 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. also in consecutive order possibly also in one sitting, with the writer choosing to write edy in the first instance and not in the second.