virgules

Evidence

"the scribe separates the prose and verse with a double virgule and uses virgules to punctuate each text differently: in the prose prologue he uses virgules to mark main and subordinate clauses... but in the verse prologue, he uses them to separate individual lines of verse."

Remarks

The scribe of MS Laud misc. 685 uses specific ink punctuation marks (virgules and double virgules) to create formal distinctions between prose and verse sections. In verse, the virgules function to highlight end rhymes and separate individual lines (p. 123-124).