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are also “several differences in features of paleography.”6 Blaisdell
therefore examined in detail, on the one hand, pp. 48—50, and on
the other, pp. 51—53, and concluded that the section preceding p. 50
(and including this page) was written by one hand (Hand I), and
that the section following p. 50 was the work of another (Hand II).
Pp. 50 and 51, showing the break between the two sections, were
reproduced in facsimile hy Blaisdell.
The main differences in features of paleography between the two
hands are:
1) In the shape of the letter g. Both types of this letter use an o as
their basis. The difference is in the ‘tail’. In type I, the tail, beginning
at the top of the o, runs vertically along its right side, and finally
curls under the o. The liook to the right at the top therefore is con-
nected with the tail. The tail of type II, on the other hand, instead
of running from the top along the right side of the o, is attached right
to its bottom. The small stroke to the right at the top, accordingly, is
not connected with the tail. Blaisdell finds complete consistency in
the use of these two types on pp. 50 and 51, and only two question-
able contrary examples on pp. 48—49 and 52—53.
2) In the shape of the letter þ, “although the situation here is not
as clear as with g.”° Type I has a fairly straight vertical stroke,
whereas, in type II, the vertical stroke “ends with a pronounced
swing lo the left.”7 Blaisdell does not find complete consistency in
the distribution of these two types, but only “a decided preference
for the one type or the other.”8
3) In the distribution of the two types of d, the ‘straight’ and the
‘rounded’ one. In section I, “the two types appear to be freely inter-
changeable.”9 But in section II, the rounded d is predominant, the
8 Ibid.
6 Ibid., p. 302.
7 Ibid.
«Ibid.
8 Ibid., p. 303.