[Blog Post] MSI at last!

[asteckley]

One thing my son and I observed that seems worth mentioning  is in regards to the columnar table in the margin of f1r: The table, or at least the third column of it, seems to have been written some time AFTER the manuscript had had a wooden cover put on it and then stored for some time. There's nothing too surprising about that, but the evidence is worth noting:

The vertical worm hole at top (spanning almost the first three rows) was almost certainly present when the third column was written. Here's why:

• The "a", "b", and "c" in the third column seem to have been purposely written to the right of the worm hole -- the person even put horizontal lines on these rows to help connect the characters in those rows because of the extra offset. 
  • The horizontal lines would not be needed but for the extra distance to the third column. 
    
  • And the extra distance would not be needed but for the prior presence of the wormhole.
    
• Then the "d" in the third column is shifted back to the left, (to the more natural position for the middle column), directly below the wormhole. For the subsequent rows below that, the writer maintains the vertical alignment of the third column
  

--Andrew