(20-04-2016, 07:13 PM)Wladimir D wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It seems that there is a sixth case of the top-line addition.
Why write the first line (highlighted in yellow) to interrupt, not to touch the outline of the circle, if in a bottom of the page enough space? Initially the author has written this paragraph, and then began to fill the text of the inner circles. He did not know what will be in point of interruption?
Have numerous cases of inserting characters inside of words, which are different in thickness by rest of the letters. See sample. Because of what it is going on? I have two explanations.
1. Author doubted the spelling and leave gaps. Then, finished writing symbols.
2. It is possible that copying (drafting) of the text was carried out stepwise, simultaneously on multiple lines. See f103v.
A third explanation offered to Sergei Averyanov. The author in the process of writing do calculations (encoding) the same pen on extraneous sheet , and when returning to the text had to dip nib in the ink.
You posted some good examples.
I've been wondering about this too and have mentioned a few times that it might be written in more than one pass. I've also mentioned that the word and letter spacing is strange, really strange, stranger than any manuscript of this time that I've seen and if letters/words are being added in a second pass, that might account for some of the strangeness in the spacing.
It's hard to find an explanation for it because there might be many reasons.
If it is encoded text or something similar to steganography, it might be easier to write the "main" text first and fill in with with nulls or...
The interposed text (the second-pass text) might also have meaning and maybe the two need to be split apart in order to read it.
I've tried to sort it out and haven't come up with an answer yet, but I think there is a strong possibility that text was "added" to existing text, the gaps (which were perhaps intentionally created) by the same hand that wrote the original text and, in some cases, maybe by another hand.