(02-10-2024, 08:51 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Your examples of EVA-q with faint descender are quite interesting. Isn't that exactly what we see with p-like letters in the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. Latin script?
I'm not sure which of p-like letters you are referring to, there are a few of them on f116v. As far as I understand, some of them do have descenders, some don't have any detectable descenders at all. Overall, the transitions there do not look as sharp to me.
Quote:Is it possible that this is a bizarre consequence of the presumably imperfect way the VM scribe(s) cut their quills, which caused ink to flow differently depending on the type of stroke?
Well, they are truly the masters of imperfection those scribes
