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A Photo of The Yonan Codex
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Thirdwoe Wrote::

What years were these diacritical points added to these older Manuscript Texts?...I see that many of the older ones got this later treatment by reading the British Musem catalogue discriptons of each MS...was this in the 800s and later? And why was it needed if not before?

Shamasha, here is a huge picture in color of the Yonan Codex (wait for it to load on the page)...can you tell if they were added later or not?

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Hi Akhi,

Vowels were added later to make it easier to remember the proper pronunciation. Over time, people were spoiled by having easy vowel markings ... and sometimes they retroactively applied them to the older manuscripts.

The larger picture doesn't really settle the ink question, either way. But in my opinion, it's much more likely that the estrangelo text predates the vowel markings which were probably added by a later hand. ( originally pointed estrangelo texts are rare, eastern vowel pointing is much more prevalent in the swadaya (contemporary) script )

+Shamasha
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A Photo of The Yonan Codex - by Thirdwoe - 12-29-2012, 06:21 AM
Re: A Photo of The Yonan Codex - by Thirdwoe - 01-04-2013, 03:32 PM
Re: A Photo of The Yonan Codex - by Paul Younan - 01-04-2013, 08:33 PM
Re: A Photo of The Yonan Codex - by Thirdwoe - 01-05-2013, 01:37 AM
Re: A Photo of The Yonan Codex - by Paul Younan - 01-05-2013, 06:53 AM

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