Experimental replica of VMS properties with a given corpus

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Okay, let's take a look at this... There are a few things I noticed that scribes usually don't do in 15th century manuscripts...

This may seem a bit nit-picky, but I don't mean it that way. They are just things that jump out at me as being less common...

• Servorum and ruarum (4th line) would typically be written as servo[rum symbol] and ruo[rum symbol]. Probably some scribes would write it as in the sample, there was lots of variation, but I almost always see it written with the rum symbol like the words at the end of that line.
  
• Even though it's "os" rather than "us", many scribes would abbreviate the first word with the y symbol. The same with vicinis on the last line. Even though it's "is" rather than "us", this would frequently be written with y at the end. In fact, the y symbol was used very frequently. propitius on the 2nd line would frequently end with y, as well.
  
• obprobrium on the last line would probably be abbreviated in a dozen different ways. Some would put y at the end. Some wouldn't even write out the whole word. I've seen this spelled ob[pro symb] and then br with a long line through the ascender of the b.
  
• salutaris (first line) would often be written saluta[ris symbol]. Sometimes it is also written salut[smoke macron]is. The first is more common.
  
• propter (2nd line) is often written [pro symbol]pt[smoke symbol]
  
• I can't get used to long-s at the ends of words—it looks odd. The vast majority of scribes used a B-shaped ess, sigma-shaped ess, or snake-shaped ess at the ends of words.
  

That's probably more than enough. Even though there was big variation in how scribes applied abbreviations and ligatures, there are certain patterns that happen more frequently than others.