25-06-2025, 07:36 AM
(25-06-2025, 01:51 AM)RadioFM wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Whatever changes they made to the spelling, it certainly didn't make it less repetitive. Would you argue that A would be an improvement upon B, given the decrease of the q prefix or the other way around? x is exclusive to B, IIRC?
This could be an improvement, for example, if:
1) it made it easier to write with a quill
2) it made it less mentally challenging to read/write (e.g., if q is too similar to an unrelated letter of another script that the scribe or the reader is familiar with, changing the script to reduce the number of q's could reduce the number of mistakes)
3) it made the script look cleaner overall or allow for tighter line spacing - a lot of descenders and ascenders in the original version may have been clashing producing hard to read mess
If the script was work in progress, there could be many reasons to adjust it mid project. If several people were involved with the project, the adjustments could start with one person and then some or all of them could be accepted by other scribes. Who knows, maybe even different people were in charge of different sections of the manuscript and could set their own rules, so there was no requirement for the whole thing to be in one single script version at all. Maybe the scribes didn't even consider standardization to be so important and were comfortable with several versions of the script being used in a single codex.