Artificial Uncial: Word Separation

Are there any gaps between the words yet?

Perhaps. Not all words are separated, though: there is a tendency to join participial phrases together, and also to join et, 'and' to the following word.

(I do not know enough about Anglo-Saxon psalmody to know whether the gaps between phrases match separate notes. It is possible: I must enquire further!)

In one case (lines 8/9), an end-of-line word has been split between two lines, without a hyphen.

In a modern layout it would be:

8.
9.
ante conspectu gentium reuelauit ius-
titiam suam ...



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