Just a hoax?

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Torsten Timm and Andreas Schinner, who have documented large-scale statistical properties of the manuscript

In addition to the long distance effects they discovered there are many more features of the manuscript that point to the text being an artificial fabrication. Here are some that I have found convincing.

Vertical Effects.  [ You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ]. This seems to show that the first characters of the first words of a line may influence the starting character of the line immediately below. Also vertical pair repeats occur statistically less that would be expected [ You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ].

Gallows Splitting.  [ You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ]. This shows that for the majority of gallows words they can be split into initial and final word parts that are independent.

Language Clusters.  In addition to there being A and B each section of the manuscript seems to exhibit its own variations. In particular for the language B sections. [ You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ].

Positional Preference.  Words in the manuscript seems to show a lot of positional preference. For instance if you generate a spline transform of the line positions of words starting  a in quire 20 you will get something like

   

An  a word occurs rarely as the first word. They then prefer to be more frequent towards the line ends.


The positional preferences together with the vertical effects and other line first word anomalies in particular show that the text cannot be a continuous narrative where words just wrap to the next line at every line break. This and all the other anomalies are going to be difficult for any natural language / shorthand / cypher hypothesist to explain.