(07-07-2018, 05:49 AM)Wladimir D wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.JKP
In the table on your site there are no examples of the letter "a" in the form of "a". Does this mean that "a" is typical only for VMS?
I'm sorry, the blog post is a bit long, it's easy to miss the table. You can find a table of one-story marginalia "a" in the middle, after it says, "Note that the stem is fairly vertical, and...". It's combined with a couple of other letters, which may have confused things. I haven't posted matches to any of the regular text yet. I'm still organizing it.
Quote:How to explain the presence of the symbol "a" in the word "ALADABAS" on 116v?
1 / chance.
2 / the author of the marginalia was involved in writing VMS, but accidentally forgot to switch the writing style of the character "a".
3 / the author of the marginalia was involved in writing VMS, (or not involved, but understood the language of VMS). He deliberately wrote the syllable "ad", because the last line also uses VMS characters.
4/ ? ....
The "a" in the marginalia is very different from the "a" in the main text. It doesn't seem like the marginalia writer was one of the main-text scribes, but so many of the letters in the main text have that deliberate back-leaning slant (including the stem on the "a"), it's hard to tell if the letters were deliberately written differently and thus might look considerably different from the scribes' regular writing.
I have to admit though, because of the way the "g" is written in the marginalia (it's quite elegant), I sometimes wonder if the marginalia writer was artistic and maybe contributed to the drawings, or maybe was attracted to the manuscript because of the drawings.