(15-05-2019, 08:53 PM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Many people have. It is now available freely.
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Gems like this are rare:
Gerard Cheshire wrote:Figure 60 shows a detail from an official letter by Alfonso V, for comparison with De Rosa. It reads: Alfonsus dei gracia Rex Aragome (Alfonzo of the gracious, King of Aragon: Italian, Spanish, Old Portuguese)
Of course the fragment reads "Alfonsus dei gratia Rex Aragonum" and the translation is Alfonse, King of the Aragonese, by the grace of God. It is not "Italian, Spanish, Old Portuguese" but plain and simple Latin.
The fact that the guy cannot read the final -um, where the macron appears as a curl-like ligature, is not surprising: he also fails to correctly interpret the macrons in the VMS month names.
That he interprets the obvious Latin "dei" (of God) as the Italian "dei" (of the) is pure genius


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