Evidence for 2 rules linking words in Herbal A->B

[npcompl33t]

I am starting to suspect something similar. Do you have a theory on the order the sections would have been written in?

I am quite confident that Zodiac was written before Bio/Balneo, because the Scribe's was visibly learning to draw the nymphs when he started the former. 

I also believe that Pharma is earlier than Herbal, because some details of the plants in the latter You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..  (However, the Herbal version is often mangled, as if the Scribe did not understand the Pharma sketch.  So maybe the Pharma sketches were made by the Author himself, or by a different Scribe.)

But I don't know about the order of Herbal A vs. Herbal B, or between any other pair of sections.  Maybe all Pharma copies are in one of the two Herbals?

All the best, --stolfi

Interesting, I've uncovered a few more likely rules and it is looking to me like Pharma represents more of an in-between point between A and B. The link you shared, many of the Herbal examples are explicity Herbal B, which i would hypothesis was actually written after Pharma. And Herbal B, was written after that.

So the order would be Herbal A -> Pharma -> Herbal B

My reasoning for this is I think many A words can be mapped onto B by treating the pharma as a midpoint.

chy, while common in a, mostly vanishes in Pharma, and Pharma seems to inject e before o, but it has not fully adopted the common -edy form in other sections.

For example, see the following graph, where the bars represent frequency. Blue =Herbal A, Orange = Pharma , and Green = Herbal B.

   

or another one, for two of the most problematic words, chol and chedy.

   


Granted I'm making an assumption, but to me it does seem to represent a transition point, less -chy, more e, before the full -edy bonanza that is Herbal B.