(15-03-2016, 08:01 PM)Wladimir D wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Why did the author, having torn off the pen after writing the gallows "F, P" Figure 2, 3, 4, 5, and then writes additional hooks.
After all, these gallows there are without hooks Figure 1.
In my opinion, in this laid the additional information (variability), the more that the hook can turn into the second leg of gallows Figure 6, 7, 8.
Wladimir, I had noticed the addition of the hooks, but I've been so busy looking at other aspects of the manuscript that I had not yet thought about why the scribe did it. I like your suggestion that the scribe might have been leaving himself the option of adding an extra embellishment like the extra leg. Very good observation.
I'm still not sure whether these extra "parts" carry meaning or are embellishments, but obviously if there was some planning involved in leaving room for them, they were important, one way or another, to the person who wrote the letters. Someone creating a fake document would probably NOT have constructed it this way. It's one more little hint that the content of the text may be meaningful.