08-07-2026, 07:34 AM
(07-07-2026, 06:12 PM)Aga Tentakulus wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[images of f81v]
Do you mean that, in your opinion, those two halves of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are by different Scribes?
To my eyes, it is definitely the same hand on the whole page. Between the two parags the Scribe just shifted on the chair, had a beer for lunch, switched to a new quill, whatever.
There are more dramatic abrupt changes in the appearance of the script, like between You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and f105r, or between lines 13 and 14 of f105r. But even there I don't see definite evidence of a change of hand.
There are differences in the shapes of some glyphs on different pages, sure; but by that criterion we should conclude that each token in the VMS was written by a different Scribe. Maybe even each glyph of each word.
And then one must consider the BEEP sorry.
Eve if we accept that there were two or more Scribes, it is still more likely than not that there was only one Author. The mere fact that the bifolios were of the same size and quality and gathered together gives that probability a significant handicap. Then there is the originality of the script, the consistent style and (poor) quality of the drawings, the uniform format through the entire Herbal section...
All the best, --stolfi