12-06-2017, 11:49 AM
(12-06-2017, 10:45 AM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Quote:The end of the lines nearly always fit into the available space. Also the text placed around illustrations fits into available space.
Hmm... how does that come to be the indication? Suppose there are those pre-ordered wax tablets, and the text is transferred from them. That the text does fit the illustrations also is not very indicative, because the transfer from the tablets may have been not on the line-to-line basis: if the illustration disturbs the line, the scribe just transfers the text into the following line. Same thing for fitting the available space.
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I have some observations from the pages that Rene suggested to look at, will share them later in the day.
A line works as a functional unit. It is possible to describe patterns for a certain position in a line. Therefore we can exclude the possibility that some text was transferred into the next line. Moreover the words at the end of a line are shorter on average. This indicates that it was possible for the scribe to select words fitting into the available space.