VMs: Late Gallows

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

	In this manuscript of Jean Froissart's Chronicles one can 
see gallows embellishments.

http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/manuscrits/aman1/i3_0024.htm

They are cut off quite a bit on this image of the page, but 
if one can look at a fuller image they are more gallows-like.

	These pages also have gallows embellishments.

http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/manuscrits/aman1/i3_0018.htm
http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/manuscrits/aman1/i3_0035.htm

but they are not visible in these images.

	I noticed these in

	Georges Jean, *Writing: The Story of Alphabets and 
Scripts*; (Discoveries, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, 
New York, 1992).  Translated from the French by Jenny Oates. 
 Copyright 1987 Gallimard.

http://tinyurl.com/9tlxp

at the front of the book.

	Thus we have gallows embellishments at least as late as 
1380.  Most of the ones we have seen are in the 11-12th 
centuries.

Dennis

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