Re: VMs: RE: Re: Qusus MS...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Graham,

At 14:45 01/05/2003 +0100, Graham Waddingham wrote:
> Its time to make my first contribution here...

:-)

> I don't think the image is upside down. If you look at how the lines are
> written,
> It seems very much like they were written using a ruler with a very
> precise spacing
> or very carefully by hand, or lined paper of some form - how long ago
> did A4 first appear ?? :)
> Crucially, the words line up on the underside rather than the top. I'd
> guess that
> most languages including Javanese, are written base-aligned rather than
> top-aligned.

Curiously, Philip Neal showed me a while back how the "starred paragraph" 
VMS section often appears to be top-aligned (though at the top of the 
gallows, rather than at the top of the letters).

What kind of culture the Qusus MS was brought into I don't know... is there 
any apparent dating that can be done for it, palaeography aside? Say, from 
the stylistics of the binding etc?

> PS, when I joined up, I never realised just how much diverse stuff I
> could learn from you guys. Cheers.

Yeah, you can pick up pretty much everything here (except how to read the 
VMS). ;-9

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....

PS: not a bad contribution from a wannabe Essex Boy! :-) But now I'll have 
to reorder my email filters yet again, bah! :-o 


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