Characters and sigla: form and appearance

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Observations concerning the form and appearance of characters or sigla in the text, including both highlighted alphabetic characters and special symbols.

Subsections

• Vowels carrying apices
• Letters and numerals highlighted by supralinear lines
• Letters and numerals highlighted by intralinear lines
• Letters joined (ligature)
• Reversed letters
• Special Characters
• "I longa"
• Tall characters
• Characters inscribed above or below the line, but clearly not later additions
• Indication of the direction of script (e.g. right-to-left)