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RE: VMs: Split gallows
f68r1 (sun over moon star chart) has a split gallows landing on a 'ch'. If
it was decorative - why would it be that particular star that is to the
right side three stars from the bottom of the page.
Then, f68r2 (moon over sun star chart) has a split gallows as the top left
star also landing on a 'ch'.
John.
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Subject: Re: VMs: Split gallows
Hello Jorge,
You wrote: =======
>Thus, to me it seems equally likely (at least) that a split gallows
>stands for two copies of the same gallows, one at each leg. I can
>imagine a scribe feeling proud of his ability to draw a the right
>half of the split "k" in advance, landing precisely where it ought to
>be, then filling in the intervening letters. Or, more simply, writing
>the first "k" as a left leg only, and the second "k" as a right leg
>connected to the same.
Well, you are probably right. Out of five examples I mentioned, we would
then read it like this (all in
EVA):
folio first occurence second occurence note
f56r t t in 2
words
f30v cth cth 1 word
f35r cth cth 2, maybe
3 words
f100v cth cth 1 word
f100r cth one leg without "ch" 1, maybe 2 words
In the last folio, the character was started as cth, but ended as ch.
Since that does not
support your theory, did authorm make the mistake or was there an intent?
Well, occurencies of split gallows are only few to confuse the solving of
the VM, but on the other hand, if gallows have different functions than
the "non-gallows" characters, it may be interesting to study them further,
to reveal their purpose
>
>Moreover, from analyzing the frequency of EVA "e" after various
>gallows, I suspect that there are two kinds of EVA "p" characters,
>distinguished by the presence of a hook at the final end of the second
>stroke. My guess is that the hook stands for an "e" FOLLOWING the "p" --
>which it does indeed dynamically, even though it precedes the "p"
>visually. Ditto for "f"s. Of course this is only a suspicion...
It may be so, but some hooks are rather small and seen only when magnified -
it seems that they were
created by rather abrupt stopping of the pen. However for others, they are
quite visible, even exaggerated (see f 100r, actually in the split gallows)
so they were made quite visible to signify some difference. It may be on
the other hand just the bad habit of the autor who otherwise, in other
communications, used the connected script. We may suspect thatt much,
judging by the othewise rather "smooth" characters, conneting bars and even
those horizontally extended loops.
>
>By the way, if the VMs is a "dumb copy", the copist may have assumed
>that the hooks were mere decoration -- just as all modern transcibers
>have assumed so far -- and thus he may have added or removed hooks
>in many places...
True, but we would probably see the other mistakes, too. Well, is the VM
just a copy? The new scans should give us the definite answer, because I
doubt that the other copy - or original - will be ever found.
>
>In fact, it has been observed many times that "p" and "f" gallows only
>seem to sprout where there is space above the line. Thus there is also
>the suspicion that they are alternative forms of "k" and "t", perhaps
>combined with "e" or "ch" or something else; or something even more
>bizarre.
Right. Gallows have also other distinction: in comparison with the other
characters they are not only
higher but also more complicated - if we do not consider other combinations
such as ch, sh, iin and
so on.
Still, EVA assigned simple gallows one-letter tag only, based on the fact it
was believed that('s exactly
what they are. However, some of them do look like combinations of "q" (
"4") and something else -
see Frogguy assignment. On the other hand, EVA's q has sharp corner ( in
reality it is not that sharp)
an t dedinitely does not - again, was it the habit of writer or was the
difference quite intentional?
regards,
Jan
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