Questions
23| Question | Key | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 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? |
QST08JFZYEG65Q4 | No evidence yet |
| Can any of it be read? Can any of it be read? |
QST08JGFGG00CY7 | No evidence yet |
| Do earlier readings survive the evidence? Do earlier readings, including our own v0.1 draft, survive the evidence now in hand? |
QST08JGGDSG1RR0 | Not settled |
| Does any reading survive held-out pages? Does any proposed reading survive testing on held-out pages? |
QST08JGFZ4R3FQM | No evidence yet |
| How do text and pictures relate? How do text and pictures relate (labels, rings, topical vocabulary)? |
QST08JGBVA05HF4 | Not settled |
| How many scribes wrote it? How many people wrote it, and did they work the same way? |
QST08JFZ1503NFG | Answered |
| How was the text produced on the page? How was the text produced on the page? |
QST08JG6BH02GE7 | Not settled |
| Is it a cipher of a known language? Is it a cipher of a known language, and of which family? |
QST08JG2PB04SQP | Not settled |
| Is it a constructed or notational language? Is it a constructed, philosophical or notational language? |
QST08JG3KMG29DW | Open |
| Is it a list, index or shorthand? Is it a list, index or shorthand rather than running prose? |
QST08JG42980WJ9 | Not settled |
| Is it a natural language? Is it a natural language written in a plain alphabet or syllabary? |
QST08JG27P80HMJ | Not settled |
| Is it meaningless text from a procedure? Is it meaningless text produced by a procedure? |
QST08JG34ZR1MPK | Open |
| What did the line and page add? What did the line and the page add after any encoding (layout, copying)? |
QST08JG78TG4W5X | Not settled |
| What do the illustrations show? What do the illustrations show, section by section? |
QST08JGBCN851BR | Not settled |
| What is the book about? What is the book about? |
QST08JGAY0G20KQ | No evidence yet |
| What is the object, and who made it? What is the object, and when, where and by whom was it made? |
QST08JFXN6R2VQ6 | Not settled |
| What kind of text is it? What kind of text is it? |
QST08JG1S1G6D9T | Not settled |
| What order were the leaves in? In what order were the leaves meant to be, and what is the unit of composition? |
QST08JFYJG87ZFD | Answered |
| What procedure reproduces its statistics? What procedure, if any, reproduces its statistics? |
QST08JG6T5R6RRQ | Not settled |
| When was the parchment made? When was the parchment made and the text written? |
QST08JFY3VG0S0J | Answered |
| Where was it made, and in what milieu? Where was it made, and in what milieu (court, cloister, university, workshop)? |
QST08JFZFSR4N4A | No evidence yet |
| Who would have made and used it? Who would have made and used a book like this, and for what? |
QST08JGC9YR02C0 | Open |
| 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? |
QST0D8K275R7MNB | Not settled |