Session 2: The whole manuscript, from images
2026-03 · ledger S-001 · draft · Kyle Prier, Claude (Anthropic)
The first session's readings extended to the whole book: four more zodiac names, a seven-planet pharmacy (Merc-, Satur-, Iupit-, Ven-, Sol-, Lun-), a three-part botanical entry formula, Currier's A and B as two registers, an almanac "prediction confirmed", index-of-coincidence figures, and two or three scribal hands.
About 89 % of the manuscript: ff. 1-117.
Withdrawn in session 5: the strings and the statistics had not been computed from any transliteration.
What it claimed, and what became of it
8| Claim | Then | Now |
|---|---|---|
| M-05 -eeg/-eeq end botanical entries Never tested as stated; line-final -m is the real line-end effect (finding of session 9). |
M | Not tested |
| M-06 cth- is a directional morpheme on the rosette Rested on the six-zone reading of the rosette, which has nine circles. |
M | Not tested |
| Z-almanac Almanac prediction confirmed: three zodiac names recur as section headers The strings don't exist; ff. 103-116 have starred paragraphs, no headers. |
H | Refuted |
| PL-01..PL-07 Planet roots Merc-, Satur-, Iupit-, Ven-, Sol-, Lun- in the pharmacy labels No such strings occur; Merc- was proposed in session 1 and the rest in session 2. |
H | Refuted |
| S-01 Botanical entries follow a three-part formula Paragraphs do have structure, but at the line, not the entry: gallows-initial first line, y-final words inside lines, m-final words at line end. |
H | Restated |
| S-02 Currier A and B are two registers of one language A and B differ in vocabulary and are confounded with scribe; registers are one explanation among several. |
H | Open |
| S-03 A seven-planet pharmaceutical classification (Picatrix match) Built on the planet roots, which don't exist. The genre claim continues as the reading RD-ASTROMED-ANY. |
M | Refuted |
| ST-01 Index of coincidence 0.065-0.072, a natural-language value Computed: 0.077 (A 0.082, B 0.077); the tracker's figures weren't computed from anything, and IC depends on the transliteration alphabet. |
H | Refuted |
Answers proposed
3Methods used
1| Language-model description of folio images | MTH08JFX6J07VFM |
Datasets used
1| Twelve low-resolution folio images used by the v0.1 draft | DAT08JFZJFP2Q7T |
The session's log
Date: 2026 (prior to compacted transcript)
Coverage: ~89% of corpus (ff. 1–117)
Researchers: Kyle Prier, Claude (Anthropic)
Key outcomes:
- All prior findings confirmed across expanded corpus
- Four additional zodiac names:
otchor(Aries),shcamed(Gemini),4odar(Scorpio),qotain(Pisces) - Botanical 3-part entry formula systematized
- Currier A/B resolved as register difference (formal vs. procedural)
- Seven-planet pharmaceutical framework identified: Merc-, Satur-, Iupit-, Ven-, Solar-, Lunar-
- Almanac prediction confirmed:
nottbas,occtird,obecandverified as almanac section headers - Statistical profile: IC ≈ 0.065–0.072 (natural language range; contra hoax hypothesis)
- 2–3 distinct scribal hands identified