The oddities of the bigram "ed" pt. 4 : The Chunking of Scribes

[Dunsel]

It's perhaps worth looking at scribe 2 under one more aspect.
He is responsible for two different parts of the MS: the 'herbal-B' part and the 'biological part (quire 13)'.
These two parts have quite distinct properties, which should also show up on the 'chunk' level. 
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Excellent suggestion.  Here's the results.

This compares when a chunk starts a word.  Middle and terminal chunk charts show similar variation.

   

And this chart basically asks which chunks are more important in which section.

   

And here's the PCA chart for Scribe 2 both sections.

   

There's one other section that has 2 distinct scribes, Pharma which has Scribe 1 and 3.   I figured, since the data was there and I was spitting out charts, why not.  It's not as dense sheet-count wise but I think there's enough there to shed some light.

Chunk starting a word chart

   

Chunk importance chart

   

And a PCA for Pharma.  It's a bit scarce on data but I think we can still say the 2 scribes have... different chunk usage.

   

And, so that we're comparing apples to apples, I ran the 2 line charts for Herbal as well.  Keep in mind, Scribe 5 only has 1 sheet in Herbal so it's data there is pretty limited.

Chunk starting a word chart

   

And chunk importance chart

   

And just for my own curiosity, here's my ED0 and ED+ which is essentially Scribe 1 vs all the other scribes combined.  What's really interesting is that because <ed> never (or almost never, I can't remember) appears as a prefix, my syllable ML learning script never picked it out as a syllable.  So what we're seeing here is essentially the weighing difference between n-grams without the huge explosion of <ed>.  So, this makes me wonder if all this <ed> isn't just a weighing change of other n-grams like... che -> dy.  All of the scribes used che. And they all used dy.  Scribe 1 never combined those 2 specific chunks (except maybe in 1 or 2 hapax tokens).

   

So my quick eyeball interpretation: The strongest signal appears to be chunk reweighting. The chunk inventory remains pretty much the same across scribes and sections, and many chunks retain the same positional preferences. What changes most consistently is how heavily particular chunks are favored/used by different scribes even within the same section.

And that brings me back to ED0 and ED+.  What I'm seeing here, it's not just a regime shift caused by Scribes or Currier hands, it's a combination of Scribes and section.  The section difference makes sense.  The scribe difference within the same section, on the surface, does not.

Thanks for the suggestion Rene.