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Page numbering was done by at least 4 scribes. - Wladimir D - 30-06-2022
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I would be grateful for examples indicating the territories where the ordinal number octavus is written through U, W, V.
RE: Page numbering was done by at least 4 scribes. - Aga Tentakulus - 30-06-2022
I was just there and read it. I think you have some thinking errors.
Here it has nothing to do with the ending "us". It's just numbers 29,39,49
With the written "nig + zig + cig"...
So they are numbers in words. Example: zwanzig, dreisig, vierzig ... twenty, thirty, forty.
Here, as an example, "2zig"= zwanzig twenty.
"nig" is an Allemanic variant. "10nig" zänig is a number.
In Switzerland it is sometimes still used, rarely, but it is there.
RE: Page numbering was done by at least 4 scribes. - Wladimir D - 30-06-2022
What you highlighted with a red circle is an insert from vms. The numbering of sections in the proposed manuscript is duplicated in words.
RE: Page numbering was done by at least 4 scribes. - Helmut Winkler - 30-06-2022
Since I have to read W.s blog with the help of a translation tool, I'll read it again tomorrow, when I am less sleepy.
Just two remarks:
1) I am not sure everyone is aware of the fact, that the quire numbers are somewhere late 15th c. and the foliation is a lot later, maybe (I think so) as late as the 17th c.
2) If you write octavus or octauus is a question off the script you are using, it is nothing to do with region or dialect, common for the 15th c. is the writing with u, the v goes nearly out of use, the humanists used it more again, but you can have a mixed use as well as you can see in the ms. you are quoting
As I have said before, I am very doubtful re different scribes, the numerals used on the quires could well be from the original scribe, the foliation is sure from a different scribe and there are the marginalia and 116v of course
RE: Page numbering was done by at least 4 scribes. - Wladimir D - 01-07-2022
Thanks Helmut.
Explanation
The numbers of the hands (3 in total) that numbered the notebooks do not correspond to the numbers of the hands that numbered the pages (4+?).
RE: Page numbering was done by at least 4 scribes. - Koen G - 01-07-2022
In what kind of situation would so many people number the pages? This sounds extremely unlikely to me - if you start numbering something, wouldn't you number it all the way through?
RE: Page numbering was done by at least 4 scribes. - Wladimir D - 01-07-2022
For example, if the page number was used as a "quality mark" (personal signature) when checking the text by different people. And in the case of tricky coding, this is a time-consuming process. There were revisions and corrections!