23-03-2017, 02:45 AM
I also think ola as incense looks good and does fit well with lignum.
As another [remote] possibility...
I noticed this quite a while ago but didn't blog or post about it because I couldn't find any corroboration for it anywhere else on page 116r, but in Latvian, "ola dabas" means roughly "natural egg" which could be interpreted as raw egg in English.
If this were a list of ingredients and if pox leber were goat liver, it might fit, but... there's no indication anywhere else in these four lines that the text is Latvian. There's plenty of Latin and German-like text, but the other words (like "portas" or "oladabas" or "ola dabas") lean more toward Spanish or even Greek than Latvian, so I am skeptical that there could be any Latvian in here and it's probably a coincidence.
As another [remote] possibility...
I noticed this quite a while ago but didn't blog or post about it because I couldn't find any corroboration for it anywhere else on page 116r, but in Latvian, "ola dabas" means roughly "natural egg" which could be interpreted as raw egg in English.
If this were a list of ingredients and if pox leber were goat liver, it might fit, but... there's no indication anywhere else in these four lines that the text is Latvian. There's plenty of Latin and German-like text, but the other words (like "portas" or "oladabas" or "ola dabas") lean more toward Spanish or even Greek than Latvian, so I am skeptical that there could be any Latvian in here and it's probably a coincidence.