Dots merging with the text

[CaryR]

I'm not sure if this belongs in the imagery or text section, because dotted lines are a feature of the imagery in many places. I'm usually more focused on the imagery--but--I was noticing how dots also sometimes become integrated with text, like on the outermost circular border of 69v/70r. Here a long string of dots merges into a string of repeated glyphs, and then a few distinct glyphs, a few more dots, and a few less distinct glyphs that seem to merge into a continuing line of dots. I'm not sure if it happens elsewhere. It's a place that seems to blur the "line" between what is text, and what is more of a "decorative element" (if you could call it that), of the imagery. Did the scribe start to write something and then decided not to?