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MethodsStylometry / palaeographyPer-scribe variant choice, transition profile and error typology
Method · stylometry / palaeography

Per-scribe variant choice, transition profile and error typology

Stylometry / palaeographyVersion 1.0Licence MIT1 runUsed on 1 mystery

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Code Python

Download module (.py)t_scribes.pyView source

Runs and results 1 run

RunMysteryMeasuredResultAgainstDate
RUN-021VoynichHerbal B, scribes 2/3/5: variant-choice G (z vs page-shuffled null); bigram JS z; near-twin substitution JS zG z=1.2 p=0.087; bigram z=6.88 p=0.0; twin z=1.97 p=0.023Null: scribe labels shuffled across pages within section and language (300 draws)22 Oct

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Voynich Manuscript
1 datasetZL3b transcription
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