[split] Merged words across lines

[MarcoP]

Why would line-end filler be longer? It seems to me if you are filling whatever space is left to make the right-hand column line up (to double-justify the text), then the filler text might be quite short and would not necessarily affect every line.

I agree, it could just be the very short words ( up to three letters ) that were appended to the end of a line. Anyway, I have this impression with some lines.

edit : I mean something like that ( You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ):

Hi Matthias, I attach a similar example from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

[bi3mw]

Hi, Marco,

that is indeed a good comparison. Can you tell what character at the end of the line it is? I can't make it out.

[Helmut Winkler]

The glyph in the Vat. Lat. is  a   common et - abbr. and part of the text and not a line filler

[-JKP-]

Can you tell what character at the end of the line it is? I can't make it out.

Here's a bigger version to make it clearer.

Small "t" with a dot, used only at line ends:

   

[bi3mw]

Thanks JKP,

I recognized the character, but I couldn't figure out what it was. I looked You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., but I didn't find anything. Thanks to @Helmut, it's cleared up now.

[-JKP-]

The best way to decide whether it stands for "et" is to read the sentence within which the letter occurs.

Ask yourself whether it says, "continuit enim et hos nequissimos" or "continuit enim hos nequissimos". Which one makes more sense?

FYI, in this manuscript, when the word "et" occurs midline, it is generally spelled out, not abbreviated.


The "et" symbol could be quite varied. Here are some of the most common forms:

   

[nickpelling]

I think this discussion only makes sense if you are sure that the first letter of each line is genuinely linguistic, and I think that has far from been proved.

[-JKP-]

I doubt that the first letter of most paragraphs is linguistic.

I am not sure about the first letter of each line. I haven't given this as much thought or study. There is some funny business going on at the beginning of some of the lines, where small bits (very small) have been added in what looks like different handwriting. But this is somewhat different from the more frequent "small bits" added at the ends of lines.

[bi3mw]

I think this discussion only makes sense if you are sure that the first letter of each line is genuinely linguistic, and I think that has far from been proved.

Do you really mean most of the first letters of a line or only certain ones? I can't find anything remarkable about many, if not most, first letters of a line. Line beginnings with very short words ( 1-2 letters ) are very rare ( 153 ).

[-JKP-]

Here's a real-life example of et-cis/etcetera symbols and section marking symbols, some of which are in the same positions as some of the short VMS symbols that I posted in Post #20:

   

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