The study of manuscripts has always been a focus for medieval researchers because of their importance in reconstructing the past. During this process, different perspectives are implied. On one hand is the question of the physical characteristics (layout, decoration) of a manuscript; on the other lays the issue of its content (language, style) and the context of its creation (place, scribes). Thus, codicology and paleography are the main disciplines that closely examine medieval books. In recent decades, however, some new approaches have developed. They belong to similar scientific fields but at the same time develop different points for study. One example is statistical codicology.

Statistical codicology, as its name reveals, is a mixture of two disciplines: statistics and codicology. Statistics is the science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, interpreting, and presenting empirical data. Related to codicology, it examines the sources by focusing on certain codicological features, overall layout, and details. The...

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