Scribes and elaborate gallows

[Koen G]

Lisa: I think there's more to it than scribe 1 showing more variety. When Scribe 3 does eventually use a couple of special gallows, these are near-copies of something Scribe 1 did before. This would imply that Scribe 3 was looking at Scribe 1's work while working on those pages; You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. emulates the gallow on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. emulates You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. . (Potentially relevant detail: the f95 bifolio is one of the instances where B-language plant folios have red color available. So we have red popping up in B at the same time S3 copies S1's gallows).

And then there's something going on with the Rosettes page (both sides apparently) where Scribe 2 (?) suddenly uses two modest special gallows on f86v6: a little bridge and one with an extra loop. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. And on the Rosettes itself, apparently scribe 4 (?) also drops a special gallow. Though in your 2020 paper, you write that you are not certain about scribe 4 here.

I would be cautious with reading the extra loops as meaningful. It is evident that the gallows allowed for some fancy and embellishment. (Which does not take away the fact that bridge gallows are difficult to parse).