Rotating decoration on gallows f42v

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I think ChenZhe meant, what are they in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.? Not on every line, not on every page, it looks like there is a random number of "i" between 0 and 8 and sometimes a second "a". On f. 10v they seem to be merely decorative as they cover all the available space at the end of lines. On other pages they are absent (f. 9v, f. 10r) or present on some seemingly random lines (f8v, f9r). Weird.

Ah, in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. they are line fillers. It's a way of "justifying" the line medieval-style. This kind of justification was sometimes done by greatly extending the tail of the last letter, sometimes with a detached embellishment, and sometimes (e.g., in English manuscripts) by lengthening several letters. It is also common in Hebrew manuscripts.