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eva-m on f3/f6 - Skoove - 07-10-2026
I have been trying to think about eva-m a lot recently and I realised that almost all of the instances of this letter within Herbal A is on the one singulion which is f3/f6 (as per Lisa's analysis).
I'm not sure if this helps us figure out what this glyph actually is but it almost looks the scribe was testing it out or had some other reason to use it over and over again specifically here.
Also of interest is that it is used non line-final in multiple places in these pages.
For those who don't believe that 'm' is an line-final positional glyph (i.e. it doesn't encode for any information) or those who don't believe it to be an abbreviation for 'iin' what other theories are out there (that don't just say that it is meaningless)?
RE: eva-m on f3/f6 - nablator - 07-10-2026
(07-10-2026, 09:19 AM)Skoove wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.almost all of the instances of this letter within Herbal A
There's also a lot of m on the 17-24 bifolio, f52r, f54r, f54v...
RE: eva-m on f3/f6 - Jorge_Stolfi - 08-10-2026
(07-10-2026, 09:19 AM)Skoove wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'm not sure if this helps us figure out what [m] actually is
I am almost certain that m is an abbreviation for iin (and possibly other strings) that the Scribe was instructed to use when space was tight. Mostly at or near the end of the line or an intruding figure.
The occurrences of m away from those tight spots may be places where the Scribe just was lazy of felt a vague imperative to save space (like the occurrences of abbreviations in other manuscripts).
Or those ms could be instances of m that were present in the Author's draft. In the latter, the ms may have been at the end of draft lines, but the Scribe (as was and is the rule when copying parag text) ignored the line breaks of the draft and chose new line breaks on his own.
All the best, --stolfi