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The gallows intrusion, the baseline jumps and multipass - Anton - 03-05-2020
I'm quite excited at the examples provided by Rene in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
Quote:In my transliteration I have three annotations related to gallows intruding in the line above. There may be more of course. They are here:
f78v, sixth line of the second paragraph: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
f95v2 line 4: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (the Beinecke scan is better here)
f95v1, paragraph 2 line 2: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
There is another marginal case in the middle of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. where 'something happened': You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
As Rene points out, such cases may be hinting that certain lines were written before others.
The gallows with their loops reaching upwards are good flags to inspect such behavior. Let's call it the "gallows intrusion" for brevity, meaning that the top of the gallows "intrudes" the above line, forcing part thereof to draw apart or to move slghtly upwards in order to avoid interfering with the intruding gallows.
I noted that in all Rene's examples the intruding gallows is in the odd line of the paragraph, while the line suffering from the intrusion is the even line. Which suggests that lines may have been written in alternating order, first odd ones, then even ones.
For the first screening attempt I checked f1r. I placed line numbers for convenience. I found four occurrences of gallows intrusion here, marked with blue ellipses. In the first and fourth occurrences, the whole vord suddenly jumps notably higher (as compared to the preceding vord). In the second and third occurrences, part of the vord (starting, in both cases, with a gallows) jumps higher as compared to the preceding character of the same vord (in both cases it's the glyph o). In all cases the intruding gallows are in odd lines.
There are other occurrences of "jumps", both in even and odd lines, which are not associated with any "intrusions" from the below lines. This suggests that "jumps" may be just a regular habit of the scribe, or/and that they are caused by some other effect, not the effect of alternating the lines in writing.
Of course, more folios need to be examined for this behavior. What do you think? Do I see just what I want to see?
RE: The gallows intrusion - Anton - 03-05-2020
RE: The gallows intrusion - DONJCH - 03-05-2020
RE: The gallows intrusion - nickpelling - 03-05-2020
RE: The gallows intrusion - Koen G - 03-05-2020
RE: The gallows intrusion - Anton - 03-05-2020
RE: The gallows intrusion - ReneZ - 03-05-2020
RE: The gallows intrusion - Anton - 03-05-2020
RE: The gallows intrusion - ReneZ - 03-05-2020
RE: The gallows intrusion - bi3mw - 03-05-2020