10-06-2021, 10:23 AM
(08-06-2021, 04:24 PM)davidjackson wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.JKP, looking at the way different scribes mark it, do you think this is deliberate or is it just the variation in handwriting style between scribes?
It varies more than is normal for most manuscripts and even more than is normal for individual scribes. I can say this with a reasonable degree of confidence. Also, cutting vertically through a shape or ligature is not common (it's fairly common in the horizontal direction, there are long macrons that sometimes cut through ascenders, but cutting through in the up-down direction is not common).
I often wonder if the different directions or shapes have meaning, but if they do, I haven't been able to discern what it is.