ARTIFACTS IN THE TEXT.

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Also are they in any way correlated to Currier languages A/B? If one "language" contains certain artifacts and the other doesn't, that would possibly be significant.

The one I call "Hand 2" (which doesn't necessarily match Currier designations) was more precise about the placement of the "cap" that sits over the bench char than Hand 1.

What I found most telling is the feature identified in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , which has a stand-alone 'c' character under the 'bench'.
This occurs in all possible types of hands and Currier languages.

I think this is a very good observation—it suggests cooperation between the different scribes rather than someone picking up incomplete pieces at a later date.

I finally had a chance to look at the Vatican fully encrypted document a couple of days ago, René and thank you for posting the link. Very easy to read (one-to-one substitution code)—you just have to scan about 10 pages and the words start popping out, but what I noticed when I paged through the whole thing was that there were at least three hands, all using the exact same code in the same way and, in the sense of being a group project, it struck me as similar to the VMS).