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Marci's letters to Kircher, revisited
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Hi Kestrel, and welcome to the forum!

I look at the original for the first time after reading your post. Your reading makes sense, but there are some strange points nonetheless.

The supposed "e" in "schedula" is written like capital letters "e"' elsewhere in the document - in the shape of the greek "epsilon". At a glance I could not locate any other case when this letter would not be a capital one. The question is - why? Also, there's a diacritic above "a" (similar diacritics are found elsewhere). What does it stand for?

The first word of the line does not look like "Sphi" at all. If we suppose "ph", then it is "Sph" at most. But the dot to the right above suggests that the last character is "i". For the "Sili", we would need to suppose that the descender of the character after "S" is just a blot. Possible, but it would be the only blot in the whole letter. The curvature of the supposed letter "l" does not look like other letters "l" (neither like "h", I would add). And the whole word is written strangely - like "S" and "l" connected in one pass (which would explain the absence of curvature), and then "p" added in between and "i" to the right. My best guess would be "Spli". Does that make any sense?

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RE: Marci's letters to Kircher, revisited - by Anton - 19-08-2017, 11:02 AM

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