Finding parallels for Month Names handwriting (Work in Progress)

[Koen G]

In my understanding (based on recent, limited experience), the letter "e" in this kind of script always consists of two parts. I tried to draw it in the image below:

   

The bottom stroke is integrated in the cursive, connected "string" of letters. But then the scribe needs to go back in the same way we cross our t's and dot our i's: "e" needs to be topped. This top in its most complete form has three parts, like a zigzag lightning bolt thing. You often see this in formal gothic scripts. 

• In the Month Name cursive, it looks something like my left "e", with an excessively tall spike.
  
• What you see often in medieval writing, is the middle type, where "e" is topped with a little "cup". This is because the the closing stroke (blue) isn't made.
  
• Nowadays, we are used to "e" as I've drawn on the right, without the top "spike". This is also found in many medieval scripts, of course.
  

The month name scribe uses left and middle. But he seems to have a preference for the "full" zigzag as it were, which also happens to be a standout feature. So that's the one we're tracking.