(28-11-2025, 03:42 PM)rikforto wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The variation is much more extreme than that. The formation of the calligraphic building blocks and the distance between them varies quite significantly and predictably between Currier A and Currier B. For instance, we can be reasonably sure, based on how other medieval scripts were conceived, that a minim in Currier A is the same conceptual stroke as in Currier B, yet they vary predictably from each other. The same is true of the distance between letters, weights on the strokes, size of the strokes, qualities of lines and paragraphs like slope and break size, and a few other qualities that do not usually distinguish letters within a script. In this way the script is not "totally unknown"; it fits, albeit somewhat mysteriously, into the known craft of the time.
Well, I disagree on all the conclusions. To me the script is totally unknown in the sense that if it encodes information, we don't know how. Take a simple example of a grille, which is only slightly anachronistic. I've just tried encoding the same text using the same grill two times (I didn't finish the filler in the bottom variant in the right part, each iteration starts with a capital letter, going top down left to right). Note that I made absolutely no effort to change my handwriting, frankly I was too busy checking the alignment of the grill and making sure I apply it correctly to pay any attention to the lettering. This all resulted in many sloppy and weird letters. The choice of how many characters per slot to use in this encoding can actually be dictated by what appears in the second slot (the first is always just a single capital letter), if it's some narrow letter, you would normally want to add another letter in this slot, and then you will get somewhat smaller letters. If on the other hand it's a wide letter, you would start with one letter per slot and may decide to continue in this manner. To avoid making the grill obvious, once you start with a certain letter size, you have to follow it. In the end for the top variant I tried squeezing 2-3 characters per slot, while in the bottom example I decided that there will be only one character per slot. Both versions are perfectly readable with the grille, but there are variations in the handwriting, sizes, qualities of lines, etc, just dictated by my choice of how exactly to use the grill. With a quill this will also affect the quality and the width of strokes.
By the way, choosing how many letters per slot to use will certainly affect the statistics as well as the shapes, (edit: ) so this could work as a model for A vs B.
So, to repeat, I see no strong hard evidence that would beyond reasonable doubt prove that A and B are two different scribes. They could very well be, but for me it's not a certainly. There are countless other possibilities that could explain the difference between hand A and hand B.
I hereby declare the above NOT a solution for the purposes of allotment of candidates for the LIST
