25-02-2020, 06:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 25-02-2020, 06:18 PM by -JKP-.
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I wasn't arguing what it means. I have no idea what it means.
But what I see in Post #1 is not a single character, but a minim with a "cap" shape, just as EVA-sh is like EVA-ch with a cap shape. It happens to be low enough to touch the minim:
In other words, we were talking about how to interpret the shape (not the meaning).
And when I have been searching for it in medieval manuscripts, I am also looking for the shape (and its usual position). I make no assumptions about what it means in the VMS. In Latin it's an apostrophe, in VMS, who knows.
Your subsequent examples are good because there aren't other precedents in the manuscript to explain them. Minim + cap can account for the first one. But the latter ones are not as easily explained (unless it's EVA-s reversed).
By the way... oddballs tend to show up at the beginnings and ends of lines quite often (as though they were added later, or by one of the other scribes, or for some other purpose).
But what I see in Post #1 is not a single character, but a minim with a "cap" shape, just as EVA-sh is like EVA-ch with a cap shape. It happens to be low enough to touch the minim:
In other words, we were talking about how to interpret the shape (not the meaning).
And when I have been searching for it in medieval manuscripts, I am also looking for the shape (and its usual position). I make no assumptions about what it means in the VMS. In Latin it's an apostrophe, in VMS, who knows.
Your subsequent examples are good because there aren't other precedents in the manuscript to explain them. Minim + cap can account for the first one. But the latter ones are not as easily explained (unless it's EVA-s reversed).
By the way... oddballs tend to show up at the beginnings and ends of lines quite often (as though they were added later, or by one of the other scribes, or for some other purpose).