08-11-2025, 07:01 AM
(08-11-2025, 02:46 AM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(07-11-2025, 10:50 PM)JoJo_Jost wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I have also found such a text, so it does not seem to be anything unusual. Its an english text of the 13th century
It is Mongolian to me... Are those detached letters on the left margin just the first letter of the first word? As in another MS that was posted recently?
If so, what would be the justification for that layout? Just a fashion of the times? Helpful for reading? A side effect of how the scribe worked?
All the best, --stolfi
Mine are transcripts of the same book, so they maybe just copied? Maybe its indicating what we discussing here. Every line start is a new sentence or better a new row in a hym.
