Curve-Line System - Bluetoes edition

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For what it's worth, the bench could be the curved counter part of "a" - start writing on the bottom right, line or curve to the top left, then curve backwards. If you start with a line, you get "a", if you start with a curve, you very much get a bench.

There are several kinds of benches though, curve-curve (ch) and line-curve (ih), the second, while not as common, still quite frequent, even appears on the very first page of the MS. Also, there are half-benches, where the left part is attached to one of the legs of the gallows character. And then there are some very complicated cases of what appears like several bench parts merged together (not included in the image below).

   

The examples above are all from 1r-8r of the MS.