20-09-2019, 03:25 AM
(20-09-2019, 12:15 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.You keep saying "your" pox leber. It is NOT my interpretation. I told you this before. It is someone before me and as I have said in numerous previous posts, I will support his interpretation (among others) because it is reasonable and defensible (not because it is mine).
It belongs on the list of possible interpretations and it is certainly more defensible than your reading of the word as "liber". There is no "i" in leber/leben. The letter "i" was never written that way.
JP, The very fact that you cannot read a single word of the main body of the VMS makes it self-evident that not everyone in medieval times expressed themselves in a way that was clear, direct, intelligible and honest.
What makes you think that the author of the marginalia could not be following in the footsteps of the VMS authors?
As I was saying, the word leber is depicted with the dot of an i above the r. For you, that dot is just a stray mark. For me, it is a signal to change one of the e's to an i.
I believe you might find it less frustrating limiting your activities to Roman Catholic literature, which probably constitutes more than 99% of the surviving medieval manuscripts. As the great Wilfrid himself noted, the VMS is Black Magic. It's definitely not for you.