Koen,
I wouldn't get distracted by additions to the imagery; there's enough evidence that the manuscript's imagery was first drawn by the scribe(s) and then that some monitoring-type of person went over it and made corrections and changes for ideological reasons. I think the added breasts (whose absence from the original forms Nick Pelling was first to notice) were added then. No long time need have intervened, and the ms might not even have been bound before the corrections were added, sometimes in ink, and other times with colour.
The script is quite another matter; because those corrections aren't made change it to suit theories, but but to make the copy even more exact and true to the original.
One of the curious things I've noticed, too, is that the 'galllows' seem to have been written to a kind of stoke-order. Perhaps someone else has already noticed that before. I know that Julian Bunn once said that it wasn't writing but "drawings of writing". As a rule, stroke-order only applies to ideographs, I think.
But the linguists (and any epigraphers here) will know best on this point.
I wouldn't get distracted by additions to the imagery; there's enough evidence that the manuscript's imagery was first drawn by the scribe(s) and then that some monitoring-type of person went over it and made corrections and changes for ideological reasons. I think the added breasts (whose absence from the original forms Nick Pelling was first to notice) were added then. No long time need have intervened, and the ms might not even have been bound before the corrections were added, sometimes in ink, and other times with colour.
The script is quite another matter; because those corrections aren't made change it to suit theories, but but to make the copy even more exact and true to the original.
One of the curious things I've noticed, too, is that the 'galllows' seem to have been written to a kind of stoke-order. Perhaps someone else has already noticed that before. I know that Julian Bunn once said that it wasn't writing but "drawings of writing". As a rule, stroke-order only applies to ideographs, I think.
But the linguists (and any epigraphers here) will know best on this point.