23-06-2026, 04:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 23-06-2026, 07:12 PM by Jorge_Stolfi.
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(23-06-2026, 01:37 PM)eggyk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The 2004 images allow for a little bit more detail, at least for 14v:
What I see there is that the hole was a defect of the hide itself. There is an extended area around that hole where the vellum is so thin that its individual fibers are visible, and the surface is no longer smooth and compact.
The vellum along the upper half of the hole is crumpled up and shows that an attempt was made to sew a patch over the hole, folding the edge over. The small holes and grooves left by the thread are still visible there. But that attempt was apparently abandoned, leaving the bottom half of the hole with the original smooth edge. Maybe a thin sliver was cut off to make that edge smoother. The folded-over upper rim was then pounded flat.
The Scribe wrote a few glyphs on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. over the bad area of the vellum, just to the right of the hole, as he tried to stick to the left rail defined at the top of the page. There is some doubt as to whether the oy in the word oykShy is original. The combination oy is very rare (only 18 occurrences at the start of a word). It is possible that the word was originally just okShy, and the BEEP (sorry) turned that o into an y (mistaking the plume of the Sh below for a tail) and added the initial o.
All the best, --stolfi