RE: Thinking about anomalous gallows...
LisaFaginDavis > 14-04-2020, 04:19 PM
I haven't finished my own scribe-by-scribe examination of the non-standard gallows features, but it's pretty clear already that Scribe 1 is much more fond of such things than are the other scribes. That implies that there is a degree of choice involved about when to use them. There are clearly some examples that are merely decorative, in particular those that are stretched and filled in some way but that are still morphologically standard (the stretched [p], for example, in the middle of 78r). In other words, the glyph is stretched and flexed, but the basic form is standard. I'm not ready to give up the notion that those with extra loops might be ligatures though...although Emma makes a strong case. I'm not sure what to think about those whose second leg is in the wrong place ([f] or [p] whose crossbar extends downward instead of finishing horizontally or with a small flourish).