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  bunny > 28-05-2020, 05:03 PM

  Also posted on another discussion list.
  
  Considering almost all folios start with 1 of 4 gallows with the occasional
  o thrown in front how is that explainable in terms of natural language?  Do
  any manuscripts or books start with only a choice of 4 letters?  If not
  alphabet letters could they show which "code subset" to refer to. Could it
  be a 4  subset rotating code or even 4 completely different codes used? 
  
  
  Bunny

• RE: Folio start gallows

  davidjackson > 28-05-2020, 05:59 PM

  Hi bunny long time no speak! 
  Yes it could be a rotating code. 
  But I personally think it's more likely to be a form of chapter marker, like a pilcrow.

• RE: Folio start gallows

  bunny > 28-05-2020, 11:51 PM

  (28-05-2020, 05:59 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Hi bunny long time no speak! 
  Yes it could be a rotating code. 
  But I personally think it's more likely to be a form of chapter marker, like a pilcrow.

  
  Yes, a very long time, but I guess a lot of us have more time on our hands at the moment to put back into the manuscript.
  
  The pilcrow is not a form of paragraph marker I know much about in manuscripts.  Is it found in various forms within a manuscript or folio or is it just a singular form usually.  If it is a pilcrow would that work when found also amongst the text with regularity?
  
  Bunny
  
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• RE: Folio start gallows

  -JKP- > 29-05-2020, 01:00 AM

  I think the first gallows in each paragraph is more similar to a pilcrow than it is to a letter.

• RE: Folio start gallows

  ReneZ > 29-05-2020, 11:03 AM

  In a recent count I did, I found 711 paragraph starts.
  
  Of these, 604 (85%) start with p,t,k,f:
  325 * p
  170 * t
  77 * k
  32 * f
  
  The remaining 107 (15%) start with q, o, "introducing gallows", d, s, y, "rare character", sh, l or ch.
  In that order.
  One conspicuous aspect is that all intruding gallows (15) have a single leg.

• RE: Folio start gallows

  -JKP- > 29-05-2020, 11:59 AM

  (28-05-2020, 11:51 PM)bunny Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
  ,,,
  The pilcrow is not a form of paragraph marker I know much about in manuscripts.  Is it found in various forms within a manuscript or folio or is it just a singular form usually.  If it is a pilcrow would that work when found also amongst the text with regularity?
  ,,,
  

  
  
  Yes, the medieval pilcrow/capitulum symbol was used within text with great regularity in both Greek and Latin texts. I have hundreds of examples (maybe as many as 1000 examples).
  
  
  Edit, addition... I can't remember if I posted this on my blog or on the forum, but this is an example of in-text pilcrows/capitulum symbols that I posted a few years ago:
  
     
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