[Article] Proposed solution by Gerard Chesire

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Cheshire calls folio 4r "Portfolio 4, right". I don't think I've ever seen a medieval codex folio called a "portfolio". Does anyone know if this is a valid or alternate way of referring to a folio?


Cheshire identifies the annotation "rot" in the stalk as the word "toa".

There's no "a" in there. I've never seen any examples of "a" written this way. One can debate whether the word is meant to be read top to bottom or vice-versa, and whether the bottom letter is t or c (both were written very much the same at the time), but I don't think there's any doubt about the letter on the top. It is a footed-r written in an extremely common, typical way for the time. So neither the top nor bottom characters would be read as "a".


Can anyone else see outlines of Andromeda and Perseus in the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. plant root?

He continues to identify a rare VMS glyph as the letter f/v/ph even though these letters are common in Latin and other Romance languages.


There isn't much in this paper. A plant ID that has already been suggested by other people followed by a misreading of the letters r o t / r o c (the way the stroke is added, it's probably rot).