scripts with character variants and ambiguities

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P?? viande quil avoient pourchassee

Par.

Very readable and understandable even without training except for the iv/ui and ni/in/m ambiguities.

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A century older script, in Nicole Oresme's Le livre du ciel et du monde (BNF Fr. 565) is more challenging to read. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

The first paragraph of the famous illustrated page:

Au nom de dieu ci commence le livre d'aristote appelle du ciel et du monde lequel du commandement de tres souverain et t[re]s excellent prince Charle quint de cest nom, par la grace de dieu Roy de france, desirant & amant toutes noblez sciences, je nichole oresme, doyen de l'eglise de rouen, propose translater et exposer en francois.

- Some 'r's are difficult to make out, e.g. in Roy (with s-like prefix because it's a capital R I suppose) and france (ligature looks like 'fi'),
- 'a' sometimes looks like 'ri', e.g. souverrain looks like souuerrim,
- Latin abbreviations are used, such as  'prop' written 'pp' with a tail, 'par' written 'p' with a short horizontal bar underneath, etc.

On the same page, a curiously open 'o' similar to Voynichese V101-A that can sometimes be confused with 'a':


"selon soy"