28-06-2020, 03:58 PM
Great image processing, RobGea. It’s much easier to separate signal from noise than the hi-res Beinecke Library scan.
Paging @LisaFaginDavis, an expert in medieval handwriting. I’d be very interested in hearing what letterforms she sees here.
My children are currently learning cursive writing. I blew their minds yesterday by telling them that there are cursive Chinese characters, whereby the brush or pen is not lifted from the paper until starting the next character. They wanted to know how such writing could possibly be legible. The answer is that the stroke order and stroke direction of Chinese characters is rigidly
codified. Figuring out what a cursive character is involves determining which lines were drawn before which others, which is easy if you look at the pen or brush trails.
Theoretically most writing systems have a standardized stroke order and stroke direction for composing all glyphs, and that was certainly true of the Roman alphabet throughout most of its history. Might the order in which the lines and loops of the scribbles on f86v3 and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. were drawn give some clue as to what letters were intended?
Paging @LisaFaginDavis, an expert in medieval handwriting. I’d be very interested in hearing what letterforms she sees here.
My children are currently learning cursive writing. I blew their minds yesterday by telling them that there are cursive Chinese characters, whereby the brush or pen is not lifted from the paper until starting the next character. They wanted to know how such writing could possibly be legible. The answer is that the stroke order and stroke direction of Chinese characters is rigidly
codified. Figuring out what a cursive character is involves determining which lines were drawn before which others, which is easy if you look at the pen or brush trails.
Theoretically most writing systems have a standardized stroke order and stroke direction for composing all glyphs, and that was certainly true of the Roman alphabet throughout most of its history. Might the order in which the lines and loops of the scribbles on f86v3 and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. were drawn give some clue as to what letters were intended?