24-08-2019, 02:55 AM
(This post was last modified: 24-08-2019, 03:52 AM by -JKP-.
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What theory?
I'm giving you facts about medieval binding and medieval palaeography so you can evaluate YOUR theory.
I'm not into theories.
Just this morning I glanced at a manuscript and in less than 20 seconds, I saw a superscripted m9 ordinal number and yet you're trying to tell me they don't exist other than in the VMS.
Good grief!! What on earth makes you think everyone in the Middle Ages wrote in Latin? There are many manuscripts and ordinal numbers that are not in Latin. Thousands!!
The Roman Empire was long gone. Latin was used to intercommunicate, not to communicate. Within a bookbinding shop, many would have used their native tongue, not everything would have been in Latin.
The m9 ordinal is not Latin or English... I never said it was. I was hoping you would use your noggin to think about what language WOULD use the m9 ordinal (it's not a difficult question). That would be better than building a conspiracy theory into the fact that there is an "m" in an ordinal number, which is NORMAL regardless of whether it is common. I know because I see it in manuscripts.
I'm giving you facts about medieval binding and medieval palaeography so you can evaluate YOUR theory.
I'm not into theories.
Just this morning I glanced at a manuscript and in less than 20 seconds, I saw a superscripted m9 ordinal number and yet you're trying to tell me they don't exist other than in the VMS.
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Pray tell, JP, in which language do you think the VMS quire numbers were written if not in Latin? ...
Redaction by an Englishman aside, your theory still requires us to assume a careless mistake, namely, a writing of the "9" so messy that it could remind someone of the tail "n" to the left of "mich" on the last line of the VMS.
Good grief!! What on earth makes you think everyone in the Middle Ages wrote in Latin? There are many manuscripts and ordinal numbers that are not in Latin. Thousands!!
The Roman Empire was long gone. Latin was used to intercommunicate, not to communicate. Within a bookbinding shop, many would have used their native tongue, not everything would have been in Latin.
The m9 ordinal is not Latin or English... I never said it was. I was hoping you would use your noggin to think about what language WOULD use the m9 ordinal (it's not a difficult question). That would be better than building a conspiracy theory into the fact that there is an "m" in an ordinal number, which is NORMAL regardless of whether it is common. I know because I see it in manuscripts.