16-08-2017, 07:14 PM
(16-08-2017, 04:28 PM)Paris wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(16-08-2017, 01:52 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[*I'm not sure why the scribe has written this as Pre perpositio as I'm fairly sure Prepositio/Praepositio was intended.]
I'm also sure that the letter "p" with a tilde (~) means "Pre"
So, I read too "Prepositio".
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I based my guess of Prepositio/Praepositio on the context of the rest of the sentence and also the relative consistency of the abbreviations in this text, so I was hoping it was correct. I didn't look to see if there were already translations/transliterations of this passage because I get more practice if I try to do it myself.
The Visigothic/Carolingian family of scripts is so much easier on the eyes (and the brain) than 15th-century Gothic cursive. After the great famines and plagues of the 14th century, cursive handwriting went downhill for about a century and use of abbreviations was so prevalent, some late medieval texts are almost like shorthand. The book hands were a little better. They don't seem to have degraded as much.
One of the things that is interesting about the VMS main text is that the spacing is much more like older texts than Gothic cursive. The marginalia on the last page is a variant of Gothic cursive, but the VMS main text, even though it has tails and apostrophes that suggest familiarity with Gothic cursive, is spaced much more like ciphered texts or like the early medieval texts.