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Bifolio as a functional unit?
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Bifolio as a functional unit?
Bernd > Yesterday, 12:32 PM
Assuming the VM originally existed as a stack of loose bifolia, has it ever been tested if there are textual similarities within a bifolio (4 pages on the same vellum sheet)? I'm aware the sample size is probably too small for proper statistics but it would be interesting to see if there are patterns that link the text on a bifolio compared to single pages. -
RE: Bifolio as a functional unit?
LisaFaginDavis > Yesterday, 02:22 PM
That's exactly what Colin and I have done with Latent Semantic Analysis. More here, and article coming soon:
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The evidence from Colin's analytics shows exactly what you're asking - a very strong textual correlation across conjoint bifolia in both the balneology and stars sections. We did NOT find that correlation across conjoint bifolia in the herbal section, which suggests that, as long suspected, each herbal page is it's own semantic unit.
In other words, 104v and 115r (conjoint) are more closely related than, say, 104v and 105r (consecutive). -
RE: Bifolio as a functional unit?
nablator > 1 hour ago
(Yesterday, 02:22 PM)LisaFaginDavis Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In other words, 104v and 115r (conjoint) are more closely related than, say, 104v and 105r (consecutive).
Yes, but there are 4 exceptions in Q20 (4/10 versos are not more closely related to the conjoint recto than to the consecutive recto), not a "very" strong textual correlation across conjoint bifolia. Probably there is a better metric than the one I'm using. And, of course, the result would be different if the bifolios were reordered, so there may be a way to make consecutive pages more closely related.
Comparison of the vocabulary (set of words) of Q20 pages using the RF1b-er transliteration (without '?' words, with all spaces kept, i.e. all '.' and all ','). The % is the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. coefficient.