Scribal technicalities, Tagin

More letter adornments

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Following on a bit from last week’s post, here are a few of the other things this sefer contains. Descriptions are mine, not hallowed by tradition.

Nuns pointing their feet backwards
Samekhs with tails and crowns
Letters with all kinds of tagin, top and bottom
Winged reishes
Vavs growing leaves and tendrils
Exuberant ayins and tzaddis
Mini peh-inside-a-pehs
Pehs with beards
Nuns trailing scarves
Lameds flying banners

2 thoughts on “More letter adornments”

  1. Our oldest scroll, at least 150 years old, from somewhere around Bohemia, has the peh within a peh and the samekh with tails and crowns. A scribe who just looked at it said it was a kabbalistic sofer tradition from that area. I’m curious where and when the scroll with the peh is from.
    Daniel

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