VMs: RE: A & B Tokens and Titles....

["GC" <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Grove wrote:


> 		GC's look into the A & B type words and points
> about certain pages being
> added to at a later-time doesn't quite line up with the A&B layout (unless
> of course
> it is more interlaced on each page).

This is something I'm in the process of recording and discovering.  I've
followed your work on the quire alignments very carefully, and agree with it
to a high degree, especially in the later work.  I'm testing a suspicion
about the herbal section, and it will either prove or disprove my initial
assessment.

I'm starting with words as the obvious indicator, looking at several aspects
or "groupings".  Given that the first [hb] page starts at 26r, what relation
is there between these pages and the [ha] pages before 26r?  The groupings
are:

Unique words, locate only on this page in the herbal section
Words that occur only before 26r
Words that occur only after 26r
Words that occur only in [ha] pages
Words that occur only in [hb] pages
Words that occur primarily before 26r but occur occasionally in [hb] pages.
Words that occur commonly throughout both [ha] and [hb] pages.

I'm adding the single folio 57r to the study to complete the initial herbal
section.  I'm not so bold as to expand this to other herbal folios until
I've understood the intended "progression" of the first section.

Here's a test run of only words that are unique to the folios in the herbal
section.

http://voynich.info/vgbt/xcrptn/unique.pdf

(I think I saw something like this on Stolfi's site once).  A percentage of
these words are due in part to the descriptive nature of the transcription,
but the general perception is enough to allow one to begin to ask more
definite questions in mathematical terms.  More later......

GC

>
> 		All B-tokenized pages just happen to be attached to
> a B-tokenized
> sheet of vellum. That is if one looks through the Herbal-A pages and finds
> one B-tokenized
> page, you won't be surprised to find that the other end of that sheet of
> vellum is
> also a B-tokenized page. If the B-tokens were the result of later
> additions,
> then both
> haves of the sheet were added at the same time. When we reach folio 26 we
> hit our first
> B-tokenized page stuck in amongst a quire of A-tokenized pages - with
> ofcourse its other
> half at folio 31 being the only other B-tokenized page in the quire.
>
> 		So if B-tokens were the result of later additions,
> then the additions
> amounted
> to four full pages (26r/v and 31r/v) to this quire. While going through a
> quick review of
> the folio layout (again) and noting (again) that the quires don't
> make sense
> with the
> folio numbering although I have no doubt whatsoever that the
> quire markings
> are much older
> than the folio numbering - but both were done a few centuries ago.
>
> 		Interesting to note that the 'titles' don't always
> show up at the
> beginning
> of a quire though.
>
> f1r = 4 titles
> (and the other half of the vellum) f8r has another 3 titles.
>
> f9r = 1 title
> (and the other half of the vellum) f16r had another one.
>
> f17 doesn't have any titles - but f18r, f19v, f22v and f24r have single
> titles.
>
> f25r, f27r, f28v and the 'B' folio f31r have single titles.
>
> The only title in the next quire is on the quire marked page f40v.
>
> f41 is a 'B' folio and no title - but has a couple of heads,
> but f42r has three titles, and f42v has another two.
>
> f49r doesn't have a title but has snakes while f49v has the side lined
> 'code'.
>
> Well, that's about all I can push out for today -- gotta get to household
> chores like
> painting windows and other fun stuff !
>
> John.
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