# Per-scribe variant choice, transition profile and error typology

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Method · stylometry / palaeography

# Per-scribe variant choice, transition profile and error typology

**Stylometry / palaeography** Version **1.0** Licence **MIT1** runUsed on **1** mystery

## Questions it answers

- [What procedure reproduces its statistics?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JG6T5R6RRQ/what-procedure-reproduces-its-statistics)

## Code Python

[Download module (.py)](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/292f2032e976a423e28c0ffaa16dcdbac9be0f898a07f8505b7dc47fe40d0f56.py)`t_scribes.py`[View source](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/292f2032e976a423e28c0ffaa16dcdbac9be0f898a07f8505b7dc47fe40d0f56.py)

## Runs and results 1 run

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

## Applied to

![Voynich Manuscript](https://mysteriesdept.com/media/folio/78r)

**[Voynich Manuscript](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript)1 dataset** ZL3b transcription

[Download module](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/292f2032e976a423e28c0ffaa16dcdbac9be0f898a07f8505b7dc47fe40d0f56.py)

Category

Stylometry / palaeography

Version

1.0 · 25 Oct 2026

Licence

MIT

Language

Python

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Authors

**[apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo)** Wrote version 1.0