29-02-2016, 02:55 PM
Quote:If there was a scribe / copyist, and particularly if he had no opportunity to check back with the person who created the original or draft, then all sorts of interesting things could have happened.
@ReneZ The lines in the always fit perfectly into the available space. Currier described this behaviour as: "The ends of the lines contain what seem to be, in many cases, meaningless symbols: little groups of letters which don’t occur anywhere else, and just look as if they were added to fill out the line to the margin." [see Currier You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.].
Even the limited line length at the start of page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. doesn’t mean that the scribe was running out of space there. The same is true for the pages You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and f115v. During writing this pages the starting point was shifting to the right.
One explantion for this observation is that the scribe was creating at least the end of the lines during writing. What other explanation did you see for the fact that ends of the lines always fit into the available space?