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Are there records outside the text?
Are there records outside the text (archives, inventories, letters, other manuscripts in the same hands) that bear on it?
QST08JFZYEG65Q4No evidence yet: Nothing has been tested yetNo evidence yet
Can any of it be read?
Can any of it be read?
QST08JGFGG00CY7No evidence yet: Nothing has been tested yetNo evidence yet
Do earlier readings survive the evidence?
Do earlier readings, including our own v0.1 draft, survive the evidence now in hand?
QST08JGGDSG1RR0Not settled: One answer is ahead but not confirmedNot settled
Does any reading survive held-out pages?
Does any proposed reading survive testing on held-out pages?
QST08JGFZ4R3FQMNo evidence yet: Nothing has been tested yetNo evidence yet
How do text and pictures relate?
How do text and pictures relate (labels, rings, topical vocabulary)?
QST08JGBVA05HF4Not settled: One answer is ahead but not confirmedNot settled
How many scribes wrote it?
How many people wrote it, and did they work the same way?
QST08JFZ1503NFGAnswered: One answer is acceptedAnswered
How was the text produced on the page?
How was the text produced on the page?
QST08JG6BH02GE7Not settled: One answer is ahead but not confirmedNot settled
Is it a cipher of a known language?
Is it a cipher of a known language, and of which family?
QST08JG2PB04SQPNot settled: One answer is ahead but not confirmedNot settled
Is it a constructed or notational language?
Is it a constructed, philosophical or notational language?
QST08JG3KMG29DWOpen: No answer is ahead yetOpen
Is it a list, index or shorthand?
Is it a list, index or shorthand rather than running prose?
QST08JG42980WJ9Not settled: One answer is ahead but not confirmedNot settled
Is it a natural language?
Is it a natural language written in a plain alphabet or syllabary?
QST08JG27P80HMJNot settled: One answer is ahead but not confirmedNot settled
Is it meaningless text from a procedure?
Is it meaningless text produced by a procedure?
QST08JG34ZR1MPKOpen: No answer is ahead yetOpen
What did the line and page add?
What did the line and the page add after any encoding (layout, copying)?
QST08JG78TG4W5XNot settled: One answer is ahead but not confirmedNot settled
What do the illustrations show?
What do the illustrations show, section by section?
QST08JGBCN851BRNot settled: One answer is ahead but not confirmedNot settled
What is the book about?
What is the book about?
QST08JGAY0G20KQNo evidence yet: Nothing has been tested yetNo evidence yet
What is the object, and who made it?
What is the object, and when, where and by whom was it made?
QST08JFXN6R2VQ6Not settled: One answer is ahead but not confirmedNot settled
What kind of text is it?
What kind of text is it?
QST08JG1S1G6D9TNot settled: One answer is ahead but not confirmedNot settled
What order were the leaves in?
In what order were the leaves meant to be, and what is the unit of composition?
QST08JFYJG87ZFDAnswered: One answer is acceptedAnswered
What procedure reproduces its statistics?
What procedure, if any, reproduces its statistics?
QST08JG6T5R6RRQNot settled: One answer is ahead but not confirmedNot settled
When was the parchment made?
When was the parchment made and the text written?
QST08JFY3VG0S0JAnswered: One answer is acceptedAnswered
Where was it made, and in what milieu?
Where was it made, and in what milieu (court, cloister, university, workshop)?
QST08JFZFSR4N4ANo evidence yet: Nothing has been tested yetNo evidence yet
Who would have made and used it?
Who would have made and used a book like this, and for what?
QST08JGC9YR02C0Open: No answer is ahead yetOpen
Why do spellings change at the end of a line?
What is the layout layer: which spellings change at the start and end of the line, and why?
QST0D8K275R7MNBNot settled: One answer is ahead but not confirmedNot settled