26-02-2020, 09:57 AM
By the way, in my earlier post, the word 'mechanism' was intended in a very general manner. Just whatever was used to compose the text.
@ Rene
If you use the word mechanism in the widest sense, the scribe used a script and the writing and abbreviation customs and rules of the 15th c. The tex is an autograph in he sense some of the Thomas Aquinas mss. are and since we have no other tradition, we are met with the fundamental problems of such a ms.
If you still worry if the ms. has a meaning, I can't help you and no one else can. Of course it has. All the no meanig theories are nonsense
I have told you before that most of the ms. is readable, the problem is to find out what the scribe meant or took down or copied or what else. I have some opinions, what it is bur don't publish them because I am not satisfied myself (yet). And I don't think building statistics is helpful.
The same for the characters which are 'hapax legomena'. For example, some of the 57r chareacters look astronomical to me, but space science is a field I don't kno much about. We have to find out where they are derived from and what they mean
@ Rene
If you use the word mechanism in the widest sense, the scribe used a script and the writing and abbreviation customs and rules of the 15th c. The tex is an autograph in he sense some of the Thomas Aquinas mss. are and since we have no other tradition, we are met with the fundamental problems of such a ms.
If you still worry if the ms. has a meaning, I can't help you and no one else can. Of course it has. All the no meanig theories are nonsense
I have told you before that most of the ms. is readable, the problem is to find out what the scribe meant or took down or copied or what else. I have some opinions, what it is bur don't publish them because I am not satisfied myself (yet). And I don't think building statistics is helpful.
The same for the characters which are 'hapax legomena'. For example, some of the 57r chareacters look astronomical to me, but space science is a field I don't kno much about. We have to find out where they are derived from and what they mean