05-10-2020, 08:28 AM
(05-10-2020, 03:03 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There's a dramatic difference between the use of nulls in the first half of the 15th century and the second half of the 15th century.
They were commonplace in the latter half.
Because of this, it might be more productive (and enlightening) to focus on the first half.
They were pretty common in the first half of the 15th century, though there are some examples where there was no use of nulls. By the 1440s I think it was pretty unusual not to use nulls and it was not unusual to find nulls in late 14th century ciphers. So I would be careful to say that there was a dramatic difference. However I would certainly agree that it is better to focus on the first half of the 15th century as this tallies with the dating of the manuscript.