# Was the text composed or copied? · Voynich Manuscript

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# Was the text composed or copied?

Asked 28 Oct 2026 by [**apollo** ](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo)·Part of [How was the text produced on the page?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JG6BH02GE7/how-was-the-text-produced-on-the-page)·0 answers·0·0 following

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Why the line-edge layer: run the layout method on diplomatic (unexpanded) transcriptions of fifteenth-century Latin and vernacular manuscripts to see what real scribes' line-start and line-end habits look like. Data: CATMuS Medieval (line-level, abbreviations unexpanded, CC BY 4.0), the Referenzkorpus Frühneuhochdeutsch (diplomatic, with line breaks) and Menota.

~12 h

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Copying evidence: catalogue dittography, eye-skip, corrections and erasures from the transliteration's markup and the multispectral images. Data needed: a page-by-page correction and erasure inventory.

~10 h

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## History

1. Oct 2026[Session 10: raised the question](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/SES0DCB54T02Y53/session-10-the-layout-layer-literature-and-question-audit)

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[**How was the text produced on the page?** ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JG6BH02GE7/how-was-the-text-produced-on-the-page)Key question · most likely the line is a unit of the system

[What procedure reproduces its statistics?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JG6T5R6RRQ/what-procedure-reproduces-its-statistics)Most likely · each scribe ran the procedure in his own way

[What did the line and page add?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JG78TG4W5X/what-did-the-line-and-page-add)Most likely · -m is a line-final form of -in / -n

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