28-09-2018, 01:15 AM
(27-09-2018, 12:45 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I really don't have a translation for the last word on the first line. It's too messy to be sure of anything.
For my part, I am not afraid to take a guess at umer untpfer.
I view it as alluding to u(nter) mer unt(er) pfer(d).
The mer is French for sea, unter is German for under, and pferd is German for horse. An under-sea horse, that is, a seahorse. In mythology, seahorses pulled the chariot of Neptune and as such would symbolize the carrying of cargo through the sea.
By free city of the great sea Saline,
That carries encore the stone to the stomach,
Thus, the seahorse carries (the "portas" at the end of the next line of marginalia) the stone through the sea Saline.