[split] Color annotations?

[-JKP-]

Yes, it does look like the 'p' is some Latin manuscripts.  And like the letter tsade and others again.  Presuming it must be German has led to a lot of prematurely applied limits to investigation, imo.

I have never presumed the language to be German. It's just one of many possibilities and not at the top of my list of options.

Also, I am very familiar with Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Aramaic, Georgian, Amharik, Korean, and other alphabets (I can even read a little bit of Chinese and Japanese and can puzzle out a fair number of words in abbreviated Greek if it's not too technical and can also read simple words in Georgian and Amharic) and it does not look like a typical medieval tsade to me. Tsade/Tsadi does not have a long leading serif and when there is a serif on the old cursive scripts, it's usually on the tail and points left. Also, the right-stem on tsade in the old texts tends to be straighter than the shape in the plant.




Even in Aramaic, it doesn't look like tsade, as it usually was written with the gap on the bottom, not the top. If it looked like tsade, I would not have thought of it as a "p" and I would have included examples of tsade. I am more interested in foreign alphabets than I am in Latin.