01-08-2018, 08:52 PM
(31-07-2018, 11:58 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Corrections would be present if the scribe understood the text and was able to spot his mistake easily when rereading. A lack of corrections might just mean that the scribes were unable to understand what they were copying.
Or a neutral explanation, maybe they didn't care enough to correct every tiny mistake. Or maybe they took great care not to make any.
One feature of the glyphs used in the VMS is, that in many cases one additional quill stroke is enough the change one glyph into another one. For instance one additional quill stroke would be enough to change a glyph e into a s or a glyph ch into a sh. Another possibility is therefore that it was not necessary to delete something to correct a mistake. Maybe it was enough to change one glyph into another one. In this case we would need to search for changed glyphs or words. See for instance the sequence shar aiip in the first line of page f111r. To me it seems that a sequence char aiin or char aii was changed into Shar aiip here.