19-03-2026, 08:24 AM
(17-03-2026, 01:37 PM)nablator wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There are many instances of gallows intrusions where the text visibly curves upward to avoid a big gallows glyph on the next line.
I know of one example in the Starred Parags section, which is part of a rather strange mess in the layout. That is followed a few lines later by an abrupt change of handwriting. Apparently in the middle of a word. I fancy that a Scribe was fired for said mess and a new one hired to finish the page.
Since those examples are supposed to be the evidence proving that the Scribing was not "linear", it would be important to list them all in one place.
It may be that the Scribe struggled to understand the Author's handwriting and thus left blanks here and there, to be filled later after consulting the Author.
It may also be that the Scribe wrote a crooked line by accident, and then on the next line he chose to "puff up" some glyphs where he had enough space to do so.
Quote:[René]:The best evidence for non-linear writing I have seen is in small vertical baseline jumps that appear in the same location on several consecutive lines, but that can also have another explanation.
There is also that Herbal page where the Scribe apparently misunderstood a single-column text that was interrupted by the plant as being two columns, and wrote it that way.
All the best, --stolfi