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J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, USA)

Elijah ben Meshullam Main Scribe Square

Elijah ben Meshullam (אליה בן משולם) (Date active: 1296)

Scribe named in the document

Main text scribe

Full name

Ashkenazi

Square

Bookhand

Gothic

• Attached to the headline
• Ascenders go above the headline
• Descenders descend below the baseline

Stable

Equal to the height of the line of writing

• Variable
• Smaller than the width of an average he

• Variable
• No space (letters touch each other)
• Smaller than the width of an average vav

Very slow

• Regular spacing
• Nesting

Square

• Ascenders are equal to the height of the average letter
• Descenders are shorter than the height of the average letter

• Downstrokes are parallel
• Horizontal strokes are parallel
• Ascenders are parallel to the downstrokes
• Ascenders are parallel among them
• Ascenders are not parallel among them
• Descenders are parallel among them

There is shading