(16-09-2019, 10:55 PM)Morten St. George wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
The marginalia provides us with tons of information useful for decoding the VMS and your conclusion that it was written by someone weak in grammar isn't at all helpful. That applies equally well to those of you who think it's all about "goat's liver" and to those of you who write it off as "doodle".
I didn't say the person was weak in grammar. I said it was ungrammatical, all of it. Maybe that is deliberate.
I did say it was written like someone who isn't a native German speaker (it is ungrammatical) but that still doesn't eliminate the possibility of deliberate obfuscation.
As for the goat's liver (pox leber, which would be pronounced poch/boch leber in some German dialects), it's not my idea, but it is a legitimate possible reading. They DID pronounce and write it that way in some regions, as in Alsace/Bavaria/Tyrol. The "x" is interpreted as in Greek (in fact, it was quite common to see this substituted for "ch" or "k" in early medieval manuscripts). and the p/b were interchangeable in some areas (not just Germany).