Letter Form Errors
Another common error found in Western Ms 097 is its paleographic mistakes, consisting of imperfect letter forms. In these cases, the scribe seems to have known how the word was supposed to be spelled; the mistake has occurred in the mechanical action of writing the letter on the page.
Extra minims occasionally appear between letters or words. Sometimes these marks are not complete, as the scribe must have realized his or her mistake in the midst of the action.
Here, the scribe has accidentally added an extra minim between the words "eum" and "quoniam."
The full word (which begins on the preceding line) is "domine" - there in an extra minim between the m and the i.
The bottom upward stroke of this extra minim at the end of "amplius" has not been completed. The scribe could have noticed that the minim was not supposed to be there and stopped their pen before finishing the letter.
Many instances of botched letter formation seemed to have occurred because the scribe began to write something else and subsequently realized the mistake before they had completed it, or changed their mind about how they wanted to execute the word.
It appears that the scribe began to write an "e" after the "m" before deciding to write "mea" as "ma" with an abbreviation mark over it.
It looks a little strange, yet this "e" in "deus" is unmistakably an "e." The scribe seems to have tried their best to turn whatever they started to write into the correct letter.