116v

[-JKP-]

After years of searching, I did find some evidence (and also examples) of flat-bottomed "v" characters in medieval manuscripts. It's not rare, but also not super-common. But even so, it still looks to me like part of the parchment has been wiped underneath the last line and that there were probably (originally) descenders on those letters, making them open-topped "p" (which also exists).

I have also found a couple of scribes who wrote "p" with a very short descender, but this is rare and the descender tends to be blunt (which does not appear to be the case on 116v).


I remain open to the possibility of flat "v" but am leaning somewhat toward "p".

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Edit [addition]: I think I've already posted some examples of flat vee, but in case I haven't here are some examples. This is a very quick grab (I'm busy today), but the shape on the left is a regular vee and the one on the right the scribe's version of flat-bottom vee. Sorry, I didn't have time to choose the best ones or remove the nulls, but this is probably better than nothing: