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RE: [split] (lack of) scribal mistakes / corrections - Anton - 05-10-2020 I'd rather suppose that he's correcting it to "eo", because what's in reddish ink above resembles "eo". RE: [split] (lack of) scribal mistakes / corrections - -JKP- - 05-10-2020 (05-10-2020, 08:58 PM)Aga Tentakulus Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[large illustration deleted to save space] Aga, I am not sure that I would call those spelling variations. If you write a word with hump-r or regular r, it's not a spelling variation, it's simply a variation in the shape of the letter. Similarly, if you write a word with long-ess, a snake-shaped ess, or a B-shaped ess, it is still the letter "s". The spelling didn't change, only the shape of the letter. The example you circled with rotated-m (it looks like "z" and it usually stands for "m", "n", or "em" and their homonyms) could be considered a spelling variation, since it is an abbreviation symbol. The examples that you pointed out in the illustration are very common variations. I see them every day in German manuscripts and there is never a problem with reading them. The variations in the VMS on 116v, 17r, and 66 are not common variations. RE: [split] (lack of) scribal mistakes / corrections - Aga Tentakulus - 06-10-2020 The context to the letter, is always the same. The meaning is always an "s". There is no variant for n,m, etc. The text is very clear. RE: [split] (lack of) scribal mistakes / corrections - -JKP- - 15-05-2021 When you see the first one, it looks like it might be a mistake or correction. Then there's another one just like it. VMS f107v I wonder if this "tiny c" is like the ones that are sometimes attached to the bottom of gallows chars. RE: [split] (lack of) scribal mistakes / corrections - Helmut Winkler - 15-05-2021 There are several misshapen letters in these few lines, look at the horriblr con/9 that looks like a cj, I think it is a good example for the fact, that the scribe does not correct 'failed' letters |