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• RE: Bifolio as a functional unit?

  Jorge_Stolfi > 26-02-2026, 07:33 PM

  (26-02-2026, 06:37 PM)dashstofsk Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I would like to present the results of my own investigation which gives further evidence for the hypothesis that the manuscript was written sheet-by-sheet at not in book page order.

  
  Another possible circumstantial clue is pages You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. of the Starred Parags section.  
  
  Those pages are now at the center of the quire, but the folio numbers indicate that a whole bifolio f109r-f110v was removed after the book was bound.  
  
  Yet starting in the middle of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. the Scribe stopped breaking the text into parags and instead wrote continuously from left rail to right rail.  And he continued with the same pattern on f111r, from line 6 until about half-page; at which point he returned to the normal pattern of short parags.  There is a large number of stars in the margin of those two solid text blocks (11 on each page), suggesting that there are 11 parags melded into those blocks.
  
  There are no other similar cases in that section.  
  
  It is possible that the Scribe used that compressed format throughout the four intervening missing pages.  It is also possible that he used that format on 118v, reverted to the normal format for the next four pages, then returned to the compressed format for another half-page on f111r, by coincidence on the same bifolio as f108v. 
  
  Or, what I think is more likely, he wrote that section bifolio by bifolio, as you say -- when You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. were consecutive and facing each other.
  
  (I can imagine the Author nervously counting parags and bifolios, and telling the scribe in the middle of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. "try to write more compactly, will you? All this draft has to fit in those sheets, it is all the vellum I have for now!".  And then coming back a few hours later, "what?!? no, no, that is not what I meant -- you can't join parags like that!")
  
  All the best, --stolfi

• RE: Bifolio as a functional unit?

  Rafal > 26-02-2026, 08:08 PM

  Quote:If you want to know how the correlations were generated then it was like this:
  For each page within a quire I calculated the frequencies for a range of parameters. Then for each page pair I summed the absolute values of the differences between all their frequencies to get a score

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  A technical comment.
  You are calling these values "correlations" in a very colloquial, imprecise way. 
  Proper statistical correlations are Pearson correlation or Spearman correlation which are values 0-1 and decribe similarity of two datasets.
  
  Your values are the opposite - they describe a difference between two datasets which seems not to have any top limit. The bigger value means the bigger difference.

• RE: Bifolio as a functional unit?

  dashstofsk > 27-02-2026, 12:55 AM

  (26-02-2026, 08:08 PM)Rafal Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view."correlations" in a very colloquial, imprecise way.

  
  That's right. I am using the common dictionary meaning of that word. 'Mutial relation between two or more things. Interdependence of variable quantities.' I was attempting just to show which page pairs have the best mutial relationship.
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