It goes on to say But this can be very misleading, as a large number of significant cases of homoeoteleuton involve extensive segments of duplicate strings of letters, allowing sometimes hundreds of different line alignments and 'situations' which would generate identical outcome-texts even though the scribes skipped at different places.Houghton (2011) on Scribal Habits
Nazaroo
http://homoioteleuton.blogspot.com/2011 ... abits.html
‘Houghton also notes the findings of Schmidt and Holmes, regarding the unlikelihood of coincidental but identical readings by independent copyists”
Some references that should be interesting on homoeoteleuton studies.
Andrew Criddle
Statistics: Posted by andrewcriddle — Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:30 am