14-04-2020, 01:40 PM
One thing I've never had time to do is enumerate exactly where the straight gallows/triple gallows, etc., begin and end. They are identified in my last two transcripts (I have four), but I've never peeled out the folio numbers and my schedule is so overfull right now I simply can't add one more task.
I started to look at one aspect of it, the classification of basic forms of gallows, and produced this draft chart three years ago, but I never had time to double-check it or add the other data I intended to add. So much time has gone by I don't even remember if this is a complete first phase or if this is a really ROUGH draft (it doesn't include embellished variants, which I apparently intended to describe separately):
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But apropos Lisa's research, it might be useful to have a chart of folio numbers for occurrences of the straight, covered, and triple benches (which is a related, but slightly different topic from the above chart) because now they could be compared to Lisa's assessment of the different hands.
Did a particular scribe introduce the variant benches?
Do specific scribes use them?
I started to look at one aspect of it, the classification of basic forms of gallows, and produced this draft chart three years ago, but I never had time to double-check it or add the other data I intended to add. So much time has gone by I don't even remember if this is a complete first phase or if this is a really ROUGH draft (it doesn't include embellished variants, which I apparently intended to describe separately):
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But apropos Lisa's research, it might be useful to have a chart of folio numbers for occurrences of the straight, covered, and triple benches (which is a related, but slightly different topic from the above chart) because now they could be compared to Lisa's assessment of the different hands.
Did a particular scribe introduce the variant benches?
Do specific scribes use them?