19-07-2026, 08:30 PM
(19-07-2026, 05:24 PM)ololololo wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I suppose that if the author was rewriting the text from a draft, he might have known in advance where and how the gallows would be placed, which is why he left room for them.
How so?
It is very likely that the Scribe who put the book to vellum mostly ignored the line breaks (but not the parag breaks) of the Author's draft and chose its own line breaks based on the space available. Evidence for this is what we see on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and f112v. Also on the Herbal pages, on f82r2+f82r3 and f82v3+f2v2, on many Bio pages, etc.
In that case, when he started writing a line he could not know in advance where each future glyph would end up, on that line or on the next one. If he was a professional book Scribe he should have kept the baselines straight and spaced enough apart to avoid excessive overlap of tails, plumes, and tall letters. But he was sloppy on this point, as on many others; and anyway such occasional overlaps would not be considered a flaw, here or on other manuscripts.
A more intriguing puzzle is what happened on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. lines 10-14.... The baseline of line 11 deviates to make room for the half-width right-justified line 10, but the latter has an extra-wide word gap to avoid a tall gallows of line 11. Which line was written first? I offered my theory not long ago, in some other thread...
Moreover, this sort of analysis is likely to fail if one does not take the BEEP into account.
All the best, --stolfi