19-06-2018, 03:16 PM
(19-06-2018, 08:50 AM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.So... might I paraphrase that close familiarity with "is"-abbreviations could have created the mindset required for a scribe to play around with (meaningful?) loops added in a systematic way, thus giving rise to the gallows? As well ad some of the more fanciful/decorative loopy shapes added to some initials maybe.
Yes. Exactly, although I suspect a few of the loopy shapes are embellishments (which were also relatively common, especially in legal documents).