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RE: Finding parallels for Month Names handwriting (Work in Progress) - ReneZ - 21-10-2025
For what it's worth: the foliation was not done by Wideman, even though his hand is quite similar. It appears typical for the time.
In the several cases I have seen, he dotted his ones.
This looks quite unusual, though I don't know if it is.
RE: Finding parallels for Month Names handwriting (Work in Progress) - Jorge_Stolfi - 04-01-2026
(06-10-2025, 03:29 PM)davidma Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Aperil (although the VM spells it Aberil).
The month is spelled with a "b" in Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan.
According to the INternet, the Catalan names are Gener (Jener, Janer), Febrer, Març, Abril, Maig (Maitg), Juny (Juñ), Juliol, Agost, Setembre, Octubre, Novembre (Noembre), Desembre (Xbre). But those are relatively modern spellings. I did not look for 15th century spellings.
RE: Finding parallels for Month Names handwriting (Work in Progress) - Zauriek - 26-01-2026
What is the consensus of the listing of the month names so far, has it been updated? I'm lost.
RE: Finding parallels for Month Names handwriting (Work in Progress) - Koen G - 26-01-2026
(26-01-2026, 03:49 AM)Zauriek Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.What is the consensus of the listing of the month names so far, has it been updated? I'm lost.
The list of the month names can be found here You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
and is discussed in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. I have added some instances of "augst" I came across recently, but not much else has happened.
The thread we're in now was an attempt to hone in on the handwriting itself, which has led nowhere. Probably because it's extremely hard. I experienced it as significantly more challenging than finding samples similar to the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. handwriting.
RE: Finding parallels for Month Names handwriting (Work in Progress) - Zauriek - 26-01-2026
@Koen G Thanks for the information.
It is Amazing, the chart alone is a success [may^ existed, amazing]; with the "latter owner" theory the range can be widen after the vms was created. Now i get why "aberil" is so important. Feels good but heavy on the shoulders for the time consuming work involved, just to think legible marginalia should be the easiest part...
I'm illiterate on handwriting styles, so i can’t be of help here. Good luck.
RE: Finding parallels for Month Names handwriting (Work in Progress) - davidma - 27-01-2026
Quote:[*]CONCLUSION
The consistency of this Flemish Apothecary model across all 240 pages demonstrates an 85% statistical correlation with 15th-century Dutch pharmacopeias. This framework effectively transitions MS 408 from an "unsolvable enigma" to a verified industrial artifact.
I am available for technical peer review and to provide specific folio-by-folio demonstrations of this methodology.
Sincerely,
[David Veiga Barbosa] Independent Researcher in Cryptography and Medieval History
Great, more AI slop with pictures this time
RE: Finding parallels for Month Names handwriting (Work in Progress) - zachary.kaelan - 31-01-2026
I looked through some 15th century private letters and found a few decent-looking examples, mainly trying to eyeball features that are lacking in our current data, like open loop b's:
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Though of course I'm lacking in confidence of what letters are which.