[Trinity] Questions about Trinity MS script
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(03-05-2017, 03:29 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I just split this into a separate thread so I (or anyone else) can ask questions here and people can choose whether they check it or not Big Grin

The problem with these plant names is that they sometimes look like random groups of letters, which makes it hard to know what they should be. Also, sometimes weird capitals in the beginning. What would you make of this? Draon? Raraon? 

Many of these abbreviations are ambiguous. A missing “r” sometimes looks like a superscript “u”.
The last words of the fist line of the attachment (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) are “folia lata q[ua]drata” (large squared leaves).
The last line reads:
“flos rub[e]a for[r]ma[ta] i[n] mod[o] ca[r]diu” (a red flower shaped like thistle's)

My impression is that plant names are usually not abbreviated. The one you posted above looks like Draon or Dicaon to me. Typically, they are easier to read than that Smile


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