(05-04-2018, 08:23 PM)Morten St. George wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'm curious: Is it normal for color graphics to show through the parchment on all medieval manuscripts as vividly as they do for the VMS?
It's quite common. Some were so thin (especially some of the French bibles that were prepared with a special process that deliberately processed the parchment so it was thin), you could almost read the text from the other side.
Quote:For me, the last word on the top line stands out as "mature", where here the plus sign is actually a "t". Mature, an adjective in English but an adverb in Latin, can be found in the first verse of the Incantation (deemed encrypted into page 106r, lines 13-14): Quos legent hosce versus mature censunto, Let those who read these verses consider them maturely.
If you are used to reading 15th-century script, it quite clearly reads as ma+ria (Maria). Look at the other "i" shapes on the page. They all have a leading serif and the "i" was haphazardly dotted at this time (sometimes dotted, sometimes not). Look also at the other "r" shapes, they are the form which has the hook disconnected from the stem. This was quite common at the time.