15-07-2018, 11:52 AM
@davidjackson: That's a very important point. On the one hand, you can analyze what you see in the book. One do not need a "solution" for this. The analysis of a possible method of the late Middle Ages is something different. There are always two questions: is the assumed method generally applicable and was it theoretically available to the scribe? In either case, every approach must face critical analysis. The prerequisite, of course, is that the solution is comprehensible. "I found it, now make something out of it" is simply not enough.