21-01-2016, 11:38 AM
(21-01-2016, 10:40 AM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The character in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is slightly different, and probably even more strange, because, in contrast to &135, it cannot be "decomposed" into the regular base symbol and tail modifier. And it was classified in extended EVA on its own as &143.
What do you think of line 2 ending in f19r? Does not seem to be a later addition, does it? Was it meant to correct o to y?
I've been puzzling over that one myself and I'm not sure. It's difficult to tell if it's a later addition but it is possible.
I'm pretty sure I know why it's positioned as it is. The reason I think it MIGHT be a later addition is partly because of the angularity, partly because it's at the edge of the line (which appears characteristic of some of these additions), and... partly because it's superscripted.
In Latin script, the "9" glyphs are mostly at the end of words, occasionally at the beginning, and once-in-a-while mid-word (or alone). The VMS main text follows this You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in a consistent way. Some scribes wrote this character inline, and some as a superscript, and some did it both ways according to whim. I think it may have been unintentionally written, by habit, as a superscript, whether by the main VMS scribe or someone else, I don't know.