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Quantitative Codicology

• Find all manuscripts with an etymologically regular distribution of jer letters (or with a watermark in the shape of scissors)
• Cluster the manuscripts according to the distribution of jer letters (or watermarks)
• Find all manuscripts that have the same distribution of jer letters and the same watermarks
• Find all manuscripts that share at least three descriptive features with manuscript A
• Find all manuscripts that share at least three descriptive features with one another
• Cluster the manuscripts according to shared features, whatever they may be (see example)
• Identify feature implications, e.g., if manuscripts contain text A …
  • … what other texts are they likely to contain?
  • … what watermarks are they likely to have?
  • … what distribution of jer letters is expected?
  • … when or where or by whom were they probably written?
  • … what other features are they likely to have in common?