(03-01-2017, 10:29 AM)Diane wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Sam and Koen
I began by assuming that the manuscript I was asked to comment on was a medieval Latin Christian manuscript, containing a herbal, some astronomical drawings, a zodiac and so on. I expected, then to be able to provenance it pretty closely within no more than a few days - say a week at the very most. Medieval European manuscripts of that kind are routinely assigned place and date within a day in the real world.
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Diane, I am still not sure what you mean by "Latin Christian manuscript".
Not all Latins are Christians and not all Christians are Latin.
I'm not even sure what you mean by "Latin"...
Do you mean those who were of a Latin ethnic origin?
Do you mean those whose native language was Latin?
Do you mean those whose native language was a local language and they learned Latin as an additional language?
Or do you mean a manuscript written by a Christian in the Latin language (with the person's native language being anything... Latin or otherwise)?
If you could clarify this, it would be appreciated because I can't fully understand the statements that follow without knowing how you define these terms.