RE: VMs: Re: entropy, shorthand systems, gallows characters

["John Grove" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 I seem to remember some pages where the first character of each line is
lined up quite nicely vertically, while the remainder of the words on the
line are offset slightly. Not sure what pages either... I've also noted on a
few occasions where a word on one line seems to jump upwards to avoid a
gallows below it, seeming to indicate that the lines were written in reverse
order. Maybe not the best example, but check out the first word of line 3 on
f29r where the 'qo' is lower than the 'kchy' and the 'kchy' is above a cth
on the line below.  Like I said, maybe not the best example and possibly
something that we feel is odd that really isn't anything significant. It may
be that the author simply adjusted the next line to the space available to
him from a not-so-straight previous line.

  As for the first character in a line... it seems to me that the line up
vertically quite nicely - most of the time. Almost as if a ruler was used
and the first characters written down.

	John.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Nick Pelling
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 3:24 PM
To: vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: VMs: Re: entropy, shorthand systems, gallows characters


Hi everyone,

At 09:48 10/04/2005 -0700, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
>There are also places where it seemed as if the
>first letter of every line was written first, and
>then the page filled in. (I think it was in the Bio
>section).

Can you please try to remember what kind of observation you based this on?
We it perhaps the ink weight variation (fading as the quill empties, and
different from the first column from subsequent letters) or some other
factor?

>There are also places where the text would not
>appear to have been written top left to bottom right
>in the usual manner (e.g. lines filled in later).
>I also remember getting suspicious that in some
>cases line 'N' had a conventient gap such that
>line 'N+1' could intrude it with a gallows.
>This last one did not occur so often that it was
>definitely more than 'chance'.

Perhaps in those cases we might conclude that line N+1 was written before
line N? This would be consistent with Philip Neal's tentative two-pass
every-other-line hypothesis (ie if line N+1 was in the first pass, and line
N in the second pass).

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


______________________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying:
unsubscribe vms-list
--
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.5 - Release Date: 07/04/2005

--
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.5 - Release Date: 07/04/2005


______________________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying:
unsubscribe vms-list