Again, I cannot speak for the text but in my opinion, your finding is reflected in the imagery which is more consistent with a continuous evolution than different individuals. You are not allowed to view links.
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Login to view. and I find it very hard to argue that - despite obvious differences between A and B plants, these were drawn by different individuals. Consistent with your autocopy hypothesis, it looks like the artist later re-used building blocks in other plants, within and between different Hands. Similarly the quality of Hand1 plants ranges from very good to very careless ,as does the text. Style also varies from naturalistic to abstract in Hand1/A plants while B plants are more abstract which is consistent with an artist developing his own style. Yet there are some (although weak and due to the small sample size statistically problematic) differences in plants drawn by the scribal hands 3 and 5 identified by Lisa. Especially the Quire8 plants are a weird mixture with A-ish features as Koen You are not allowed to view links.
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Login to view.. This is also reflected the the drawings of human figures.
In your model of continuous evolution, where would you place these Hand5 herbal pages, or Q8 in general?