28-02-2020, 07:14 PM
(26-02-2020, 06:23 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.To me, this gives the appearance of a copy of a source text that also included special symbols, e.g. zodiac or planet signs.
One observation of Currier was: "The ends of the lines contain ... little groups of letters which don't occur anywhere else, and just look as if they were added to fill out the line to the margin" (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).
The lines fill out the available space. This is even true for lines with holes (see folios You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and f107v) or slanted and irregular lines (see for instance folio f108v or folios You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and f112v). This means that the author of the text was able to choose the length of the words as needed to fill out the available space. Since the lines are irregular the knowledge about the length of each line was only available while writing the text. Therefore we know for sure that the text was generated during writing and that the scribe was also the author of the text (see also Timm 2015, p. 35).
