"A three-year project to restore a unique fragment of a medieval manuscript dedicated to Merlin and King Arthur has been completed at the University of Cambridge. This rare text, discovered in 2019 in the binding of an ancient book, was in a deplorable state: it was reused, it was sewn into the cover and partly lost."
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Look at the back side. There are drawings similar to the "eccentrics".
Only in the left sign, the "smoke" is drawn on the left.
And can the right drawing be counted as the number 26?
Guys were talking about tents in the other thread and R.Sale linked a bunch of them. Was this example already discussed?
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Pseudo text?
(12-05-2025, 05:07 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Pseudo text?
Yes, it clearly looks like pseudo-text to me. It is too uneven for pure ornamentation.
It's an interesting manuscript for another reason, by the way. If I understood correctly, this is the original copy written by Petrus de Ebulo, of Balneis fame. You are not allowed to view links.
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Maybe not letters, as they are on the first page maybe more like a manual. If the language is one that doesn't have alphabet, in this case my guess it is whistle language (Silba Gomero) and these are sketches of fingers/mouth position. The symbols in text might give information about pitch and length of whistle.
I came up with this idea while reading about Guanches, native people of Canary islands. Few more things that made me curious are that the main gods were sun and moon, stars could be presentation of meteor showers that are visible there every summer, women were very important in their society, they believed in great connection with nature, they had sacred tree, one of the favourite plants was dragon tree, in one of circles there is a lady handing something to a man could it be Christopher Columbus taking sugarcane from his mistress? I have few more connections (maybe just coincidental), but would like to hear your opinion, thanks
Please ignore my broken English, not my first language.