RE: VMs: Currier A and B

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi GC,

> Unique words between pages appear to spring up through a combinatorial
> process, (forgive me, Nick) pairing word beginnings with new endings.  The
> "groups" (forgive me again, Nick), are set not to a true pairifed scale,
> rather a 3-2, 2-3 pairing.  Once you think you have that pegged, a word
> comes along that is written in "true cipher", not fitting any of these
> "pairifications", as Nick terms them, and not exhibiting any of the signs
> that we would expect in our theories.

Strictly speaking, until we agree on what comprises a glyph, it's true that 
we can't really talk about "pairification" - I use the term to mean 
"low-level groupification" (because one might argue that "groupification" 
is simply "wordification", but also because historically I place it within 
a tradition of paired and part-paired Quattrocento ciphers). I'm also 
definitely not claiming that everything is paired all the time - EVA <s> is 
normally unpaired, for example, whereas EVA <-r> is normally the latter 
half of a pair.

I'm also slightly ambivalent about some groups of 3 - for example, is EVA 
<qok> a pair of a "qo" glyph and a "k" glyph, is it a contraction of a "qo" 
pair and an "ok" pair, or is it a 3-glyph group in its own right? And 
similarly for <qol>.

Perhaps interestingly, I've been looking at the balneological section, 
where it's notable that you see both numerous non-paired (ie, fairly 
free-standing) instances of EVA <l>, as well as many instances of <qol> 
there. This seems to suggest that <qol> there is formed of <qo> + <l>, 
rather than being a single group <qol>. To me, this suggests that (for 
example) <qok> should be read as <qo> + <k>, rather than a contraction of 
<qo> + <ok>.

In fact, I've just gone through the whole of (balneological) quire 13, and 
every single page contains non-paired "l" glyphs (ie, as opposed to <-l> 
half-pair glyphs in <ol> or <al>), often occurring at the start of words or 
even the start of lines ("l" also appears at the end of some words, like 
<qokedyl> on f83r, which I read as 'crocodile'). :-)   <qol> also appears 
on nearly every page in the quire as well... perhaps this is a dialect thing?

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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