(03-06-2023, 03:47 AM)Aga Tentakulus Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think I have an example here of a book like Helmut imagines.
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A "normalized" transcription of the first text in Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, A X 44 (Quaestiones quaedam Magistri Stephani) is available here: You are not allowed to view links.
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I relied on that to approximate a "diplomatic" transcription of f.1r with the simple system described You are not allowed to view links.
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Of course, my transcription will contain errors and inconsistencies, but I believe it still allows some rough measurements.
Excluding spaces and punctuation, the length of the abbreviated text is 63% that of the normalized text (1908 vs 3035 characters).
At least 80% of the words in the abbreviated text contain an abbreviated symbol; a few others are abbreviated by just dropping some characters, so probably only 10% of the words are not abbreviated in any way. About 25% of characters in the abbreviated text are abbreviation symbols (473 of 1908): the Basel ms is heavily abbreviated, if we compare this figure with the 7.5% You are not allowed to view links.
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As an example, these words are interpreted as "non tamen oritur ex distinctione" (no[n] t[amen]n orit[u]r ex d[istinctio]ne), with only "ex" written in full. [I guess that the second word could also be read as "tum"]
Both the normalized and abbreviated text show no occurrences of reduplication or partial reduplication. Voynich f81r/f81v (which together contain about the same number of words as f.1r in the Basel manuscript) show 6 occurrences of perfect reduplication and 8 of partial reduplication (3% of consecutive word couples, in line with the average over the whole manuscript).
Measuring character conditional entropy on 1000-character chunks gives similar values for the normalized and abbreviated text (2.6). The value for Voynich f81r/v is much lower (1.5).
In conclusion, I don't see this example of abbreviated Latin as particularly close to Voynichese, with the known, limited, exception of some similar symbols at least in one case behaving similarly ('9' occurring at the start and end of words).