Larry,
Whilst the occasional one might be caused by an underlying page, I don't believe that could explain why so many of the gallows character seem to show this effect. Also I haven't noticed 'jumps' in characters adjacent to the gallows, even if extending the hypothetical edge of the underlying sheet would intersect that character. And I've not seen the effect in other long strokes such as /q/ and /y/.
For a good example of what I mean take a look at the last line on f106r. All the gallows in this line show the effect to some degree, and the final 'k' in 'cheokam' looks distinctly as though its second leg was first a 'c' before having the top half added to it.
Jon.
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> It looks to me that the "split gallows" you are talking about
> is more due to there being a page beneath the current page
> (or the current page folded). The line breaks are angled as
> if the person was writing and there was something underneath
> that cuases the nib to jump.
>
> You can see that in pencil work pretty easily too.
>
>
>
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> >>> JGrove@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 02/12/04 12:33PM >>>
> I've put the image at:
> http://www.geocities.com/jgroveuk/Gallows.jpg
> <http://www.geocities.com/jgroveuk/Gallows.jpg>
>
> Jon.
>
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> From: Jon Grove [mailto:JGrove@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 12 February 2004 17:14
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> Hi Barbara,
>
> In your detailed examination of the script, have you noticed
> that frequently
> the 'legs' of the gallows characters appear to have been
> drawn in halves?
> It's as though one or two short strokes were drawn for the
> foot/feet, and
> then the top half added in a separate movement. Sometimes
> there is a small
> gap in the middle of a leg, sometimes a kink, sometimes a
> slight overlap. In
> some cases the second 'foot' of a /t/ or /k/ looks like it
> started out as an
> /e/. Of course I don't know what it means, but it struck me
> as a strange way
> to have written these characters. Maybe using a quill forces
> one to use a
> writing style which seems illogical to someone who's never
> tried it - what
> do you think?
>
> I have a jpg of various examples, if anyone's interested.
>
> Jon.
>
>
>
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