24-09-2026, 02:18 PM
(24-09-2026, 12:10 PM)Skoove wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'm not sure that an A to B map is possible since we see considerable evidence of 'transitionary' stages between the two (I know Rene has a good explanation of this on his site).
Perhaps this is not the right thread for this question but I did just wonder, has anyone seen if word frequency (i.e. the way we discovered and differentiate between A and B) correlates with the scribal hand (the 5 scribes that Lisa has detailed). It seems reasonable to me that even if we were all writing our pages in English, we have select vocabulary and grammar that we each prefer and gravitate towards. This would of course suggest that the VMS text is not copied from previous manuscripts but has original content, each created by each scribe.
I've read his work, and address some of it in my other thread. I limited my search to early Herbal A vs B because both of us agree that these represent stable bases. IF there is evidence of 'transitory' stages, then that is exactly what you would need to be able to derive these rules, and by definition a map would be possible.