(16-03-2016, 08:37 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Quote:you can see the same process, unfinished, on the gallows in the middle of the third line—the scribe started to add a second stroke and stopped partway down and the subsequent gallows does not have the second stroke, as though he maybe decided it wasn't such a good idea to keep doing it.
Do you mean oochoikhy? The "process" is actually "finished", just the ink mostly ran out.
That's a possible interpretation as a tiny bit of the pressure mark is visible all the way to the bottom, but if the intention was to make it like the others, all he had to do was add ink and fix/finish it. But the process stops on that character. He doesn't correct it or do any more that way. It looks like he might have had second thoughts about the idea. The ones previous to that look deliberate, not accidental. There's no quill problem with the preceding or succeeding letters. some are a little darker (from re-dipping the quill) but they are not double-line thick and the first stem on the gallows isn't thick either.
I suspect it was a deliberate (and abandoned) experiment rather than a quill problem.