(02-02-2016, 11:31 PM)crezac wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
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If, a word were split, for example half of it on each side of a plant's stem in a drawing, I don't think we would be able to tell....
It was very common for words to split across plants and to split across lines in old herbal manuscripts. Some scribes had symbols for a broken word (as we use a hyphen today), but many didn't bother. It was assumed, since parchment was precious and space limited, that words would break.
This aspect of analyzing the text does make it a greater challenge, in addition to the fact that the spaces in the VMS may not be spaces as we use them.