19-08-2017, 10:00 AM
(This post was last modified: 19-08-2017, 10:07 AM by Kestrel.
Edit Reason: Italics for consistency
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Hello everyone,
This is my first post, so be gentle with me!
I would suggest that there are in fact no Sphinxes or "schaedata" in the Marci to Kircher letter of 12 September 1640.
The word modo is preceded by an abbreviated word. That word is read by Philip Neal as "Sphi with a line over it." I think it is actually Sili with a line over it: an abbreviation of simili: a form of the adjective similis (meaning "similar"). The phrase simili modo simply means "likewise," "in like manner." The abbreviation in the last-but-one paragraph (sile with a line over it) stands for simile (quid simile = "something similar"), and has nothing to do with 'matters for silence,' or censorship.
The word in the letter which both Fletcher and Neal read as the (non-existent) word "schaedata" is surely schedula, meaning a leaf of paper.
My proposed reading of the "sphinx" sentence would therefore be:
Si[mi]li modo quae Amicus meus M. Georgius Barschius per me scribi uoluerit, ex schedula hic adiuncta intelliget.
[Your Reverence] "will likewise gather, from the attached sheet of paper, what my friend M. Georg Barschius wanted me to convey in writing."
This is my first post, so be gentle with me!
I would suggest that there are in fact no Sphinxes or "schaedata" in the Marci to Kircher letter of 12 September 1640.
The word modo is preceded by an abbreviated word. That word is read by Philip Neal as "Sphi with a line over it." I think it is actually Sili with a line over it: an abbreviation of simili: a form of the adjective similis (meaning "similar"). The phrase simili modo simply means "likewise," "in like manner." The abbreviation in the last-but-one paragraph (sile with a line over it) stands for simile (quid simile = "something similar"), and has nothing to do with 'matters for silence,' or censorship.
The word in the letter which both Fletcher and Neal read as the (non-existent) word "schaedata" is surely schedula, meaning a leaf of paper.
My proposed reading of the "sphinx" sentence would therefore be:
Si[mi]li modo quae Amicus meus M. Georgius Barschius per me scribi uoluerit, ex schedula hic adiuncta intelliget.
[Your Reverence] "will likewise gather, from the attached sheet of paper, what my friend M. Georg Barschius wanted me to convey in writing."
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