25-09-2018, 07:26 PM
(25-09-2018, 04:19 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[quote="Morten St. George" pid='22476' dateline='1537829562']
It was extremely common for those who owned a manuscript after it was written to add notes, especially at the end. I'm HOPING there's a connection (I think the 17v marginalia is in the same hand, so I have my fingers crossed that the marginalia writer was contemporary with the VMS) but it's definitely not proven yet that the marginalia writer knew what was in the text.
Hi JKP,
You're the guy I most wanted to hear from because, as I recall, you're an expert in medieval handwriting.
How do you interpret the fourth, fifth and sixth words at the top of f17r? Could the fourth word be "how"? Does the sixth word remind you of your "nim" from f116v?
I know that you have dated the marginalia handwriting to the 15th century but be aware, by my theory, the marginalia was written by one of the VMS decoders around the year 1597. Do you agree that it is theoretically possible for someone in the late 16th century to be familiar with 15th century script and to adopt it for his own purposes?