"The Currier languages revisited" revisited

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Hello all,
this thread is very interesting. I would like to share a couple of plots from some automatic topic-detection work I did last summer. The "topics" detected are, in my view, more like stylistic clusters than semantic topics, but I think they can still provide a useful summary. That's why I post this here, as a summary of language differences.

The first plot shows folios labelled as Currier A (left) and Currier B (right). Within each side, the X-axis lists folios in ascending numeric order. Each colour represents a different topic cluster. In Currier A we mainly see two dominant styles (brown and green), with three folios that stand out as unusual for A (if I am not mistaken: f56, f58, and f65r), where orange, red, and violet topics appear instead.

   

When we divide the same data by writing hand, we see that Hand 1 appears to have a very distinct stylistic profile, and Hand 4 also stands apart, while Hands 2, 3, and 5 show stylistic distributions that are more similar to each other.

   

I believe these results are consistent with the patterns discussed in this thread, and they may offer an additional point of view about them.