Sorry Marco, I have to say (in a Billy Connolly accent) "That's no gallows! It's not tall enough!" 
It only looks like one because the handwriting is all squashed up so you can't tell an ascender from a descender and the scale is distorted.
A more elegant origin could come from two looped l's with a macron in between, e.g. as per PDF page 122 of Capelli, collio = collegio
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I've been looking all day through over 100 Visigoth manuscripts and there was a lot that was interesting, but I ignored anything that was not on an ascender. Lots of gallows, but loops in the wrong place.
No doubt when JKP marshalls his resources we will all stand in awe...!
It only looks like one because the handwriting is all squashed up so you can't tell an ascender from a descender and the scale is distorted.
A more elegant origin could come from two looped l's with a macron in between, e.g. as per PDF page 122 of Capelli, collio = collegio
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I've been looking all day through over 100 Visigoth manuscripts and there was a lot that was interesting, but I ignored anything that was not on an ascender. Lots of gallows, but loops in the wrong place.
No doubt when JKP marshalls his resources we will all stand in awe...!