I think signatures typically are in the nominative case.
(25-09-2024, 01:27 PM)oshfdk Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Which one of the samples looks like Aretiüs?
Top one and bottom one.
Edit: "ex libris Aretii" means "from the books of Aretius"
Is it possible that Aretius is in the 4th declension, whatever this means? (My Latin is virtually non-existent, I mostly read it by identifying familiar roots from modern languages and knowing a few pronouns and particles. Basically same way most decipherers read Voynichese
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I don't think that accents were marked like that in Latin manuscripts, those superscripts usually were abbreviations, but I am not a paleographer. Also, the genitive is Aretii, which makes it 2nd declension. The best approach would be seeing how similar superscripts are used in the main text of the letters, but they don't seem to be easy to read.
(25-09-2024, 04:35 PM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I don't think that accents were marked like that in Latin manuscripts, those superscripts usually were abbreviations, but I am not a paleographer. Also, the genitive is Aretii, which makes it 2nd declension. The best approach would be seeing how similar superscripts are used in the main text of the letters, but they don't seem to be easy to read.
I'm attaching the 3 letters in high resolution, just in case you'd like to have a look. There are quite a few marks over the characters, e.g.:
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Thank you. I find these letters hard to read. My impression is that they are not much abbreviated. He seems to be using the superscript above all occurrences of u/v to distinguish them from n, something like the tittle above i
In this fragment, I read:
apud vos, tua
tuis aditum
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