About the scribes

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It would be better to pay attention specifically to the differences between Herbal A, Herbal B, and balneology, rather than to the handwriting, which does not provide us with any information on its own (except for the assumption that the differences in the "languages" are not algorithmic but lexical).

Handwriting does provide information. We can try to match the calligraphy with regional scripts. Are lines written left to right, or right to left? Are glyphs written sequentially? Slips of the pen can potentially give us insights on the scribe, even if accidental and due to fatigue.

It's arguably subjective, speculative, and prone to confirmation bias, but handwriting analysis is not entirely useless at all.