(09-06-2018, 10:16 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.So I just decided to open a random manuscript - You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - and was able to find the following correspondent glyphs. Mostly the ones in the "final abbreviations" category.
Would the following conclusions be correct?
What I mean with (4) is that in a "flowy" hand like the one below (early 15thC Spanish) you'll get the abbreviations and flourishes but not really the benches as they appear in the VM.
- EVA-l is rare as a non-numeral.
- EVA g, m, s, y, n are not particularly rare and generally used for abbreviating.
- Benches are not particularly rare and are generally ligatures.
- It's harder to find regular use of (2) ánd (3) in the same manuscript? (this is just from my very limited experience).
- Gallows still lack a decent parallel that coincides with (2) and (3).
Hi Koen,
I have added what seems to me a good enough "bench", the "cr" ligature in "lucrum", You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., right column, line 15.
There also are a few "ci" that could match ch. Parallels for Sh are typically harder to find. I don't have the impression that your points (2) and (3) typically do not appear together, but my experience is the same as yours, so who knows?
I want to thank you again for this thread. I find the subject intriguing and I think there are a number of things worth discussing in this context. I must definitely read something about medieval scripts, at least enough to understand basic classification criteria.


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