(29-06-2020, 07:30 PM)bunny wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
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In spite of the few weird letters it look like it is a copied piece and the author had no idea what they were writing, but tried to copy the script (or of course follow the method of a fake constructed text) faithfully. Given all the many, many titles in the astronomy, astrology, biology and herbal section are all pretty spot on does suggest it is not an original work at all unless constructed each word on the spot.
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The ones you pointed out are not weird in medieval texts, they are normal and common.
Whether the VMS was copied, I don't know. A person can copy from someone else's text or they can copy from their own draft version. Given its cleanness and intricacies of some of the drawings (like the rosettes folio), I would suspect that the VMS is copied from something. If not, then the person was very disciplined.
Such discipline did exist. Jewish scribes writing out the Torah were not allowed to make mistakes. If they did, the Torah could not be used (it's possible that it could still be used as an exemplar, if the mistakes were corrected, I'm not sure if this was permitted, but it could not be used for services in the synagogue). It would be an incredible feat to write out a Torah with no errors, but it was done.