  Stylometric analysis of medieval vernacular texts is still a significant
challenge: the importance of scribal variation, be it spelling or more
substantial, as well as the variants and errors introduced in the tradition,
complicate the task of the would-be stylometrist. Basing the analysis on the
study of the copy from a single hand of several texts can partially mitigate
these issues (Camps and Cafiero, 2013), but the limited availability of
complete diplomatic transcriptions might make this difficult. In this paper, we
use a workflow combining handwritten text recognition and stylometric analysis,
applied to the case of the hagiographic works contained in MS BnF, fr. 412. We
seek to evaluate Paul Meyer's hypothesis about the constitution of groups of
hagiographic works, as well as to examine potential authorial groupings in a
vastly anonymous corpus.
