06-08-2025, 03:55 PM
(06-08-2025, 03:22 PM)Antonio García Jiménez wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think it is useful in this regard to quote this observation made by Currier:
Symbol groups at the ends of lines are frequently of a character unlike those appearing in the body of the text sometimes having the appearance of fillers.
Has anyone checked whether this anomaly occurs on other (non-hoax, non-encrypted) manuscripts?
That anomaly is not unexpected. A Scribe copying running text would be more likely to abbreviate a word if it would otherwise stick out of the right margin, or if breaking the line before it would leave a dent in that margin or create a parag-final line with only one word. Also, there may be some hyphenation scheme going on, with non-obvious conventions for marking it.
It is also possible that sentences within a paragraph were marked in the original draft, e.g. with extra-wide word spaces. Then the Scribe may have tried to get the line breaks to fall on sentence boundaries when possible, again by abbreviating words near the end of the line.