folio 85r - full text (no illustrations)

[Anton]

In my transliteration I have three annotations related to gallows intruding in the line above. There may be more of course. They are here:

f78v, sixth line of the second paragraph: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

f95v2 line 4: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (the Beinecke scan is better here)

f95v1, paragraph 2 line 2: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

There is another marginal case in the middle of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. where 'something happened': You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

I think the "intruding gallows" deserve close inspection. What this phenomenon would probably mean is that the line above the intruding gallows was written after the line containing the intruding gallows. So when the scribe was putting down the top line, he had to "wrap" the gallows loops with vords of that line.

Note that in all three examples provided by Rene the intruding gallows' line number in the paragraph is an odd number.

If you write odd lines first, and even lines in the second pass, then gallows in the even lines will never intrude.

This deserves further observation. In particular, whether, in the folios with high text density, gallows in odd lines are systematically taller than those in even lines.