14-11-2025, 09:17 PM
I took the most convincing matches to see where they came from
The best 8 pretty much unambiguous matches with scores of >2.5 are hands 1 or 5 and belong to the early quires with 3xQ3 (2 on same bifolio), 3xQ6 (2 on same bifolio) and one match in Q1 and 5. All these best matches are found on Pharma page foldout f102 (Q19) or on f89v2 (Q15)
Looking at all matches that have a score of at least 2 and were rated by more than one person, we get matches from all botanical quires 1-8, 15+17 with 6 matches from Q15 and two from Q17. There is no quire that does not have at least one good match in the pharma section.
From those best 32 matches:
24 or 75% are Hand1
5 or 16% are Hand2
3 or 10% are Hand5
Considering there are only 6 Hand5 plants, at least 50% are covered in Pharma.
In contrast, only 5 of 20 or 25% of Hand2 plants appear in Pharma though there are many prominent ones.
Curiously I estimate also approximately 25% of existing Hand1 plants are found in Pharma.
There is no strong match for a Hand3 plant though I would argue this is a somewhat decent match for f94r.
It's also interesting that most of the best matches are clustered on one foldout page which has matches with plants from scribal hands 1,2 and 5.
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As always, I have no idea what that means. I'll leave it to our statistics experts to determine if the Pharma duplicates are random samples of the botanical plants or not.
If we assume Hand1 is the earliest and Hand3 the latest, it makes sense that Hand3 plants and most Hand2 plants were created later. But why are so many of the rather poorly drawn Hand5 plants in Pharma?
The best 8 pretty much unambiguous matches with scores of >2.5 are hands 1 or 5 and belong to the early quires with 3xQ3 (2 on same bifolio), 3xQ6 (2 on same bifolio) and one match in Q1 and 5. All these best matches are found on Pharma page foldout f102 (Q19) or on f89v2 (Q15)
Looking at all matches that have a score of at least 2 and were rated by more than one person, we get matches from all botanical quires 1-8, 15+17 with 6 matches from Q15 and two from Q17. There is no quire that does not have at least one good match in the pharma section.
From those best 32 matches:
24 or 75% are Hand1
5 or 16% are Hand2
3 or 10% are Hand5
Considering there are only 6 Hand5 plants, at least 50% are covered in Pharma.
In contrast, only 5 of 20 or 25% of Hand2 plants appear in Pharma though there are many prominent ones.
Curiously I estimate also approximately 25% of existing Hand1 plants are found in Pharma.
There is no strong match for a Hand3 plant though I would argue this is a somewhat decent match for f94r.
It's also interesting that most of the best matches are clustered on one foldout page which has matches with plants from scribal hands 1,2 and 5.
We also have some duplicates. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are depicted twice each. None are perfect matches though
As always, I have no idea what that means. I'll leave it to our statistics experts to determine if the Pharma duplicates are random samples of the botanical plants or not.
If we assume Hand1 is the earliest and Hand3 the latest, it makes sense that Hand3 plants and most Hand2 plants were created later. But why are so many of the rather poorly drawn Hand5 plants in Pharma?
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