15-08-2020, 10:01 PM
A couple of years ago, I posted an example on my blog of common properties of plants that had been distilled down to single letters:
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The way this writer did it was unusual, but any medieval mind familiar with the properties of plants would recognize them, even if written only as single letters plus a number as they are here, because they were so frequently expressed with the same words and in the same order in medieval manuscripts.
In other words, it struck me, when I saw this, that it wouldn't have to be in a chart, it could also be integrated with the main text and still be understood.
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The way this writer did it was unusual, but any medieval mind familiar with the properties of plants would recognize them, even if written only as single letters plus a number as they are here, because they were so frequently expressed with the same words and in the same order in medieval manuscripts.
In other words, it struck me, when I saw this, that it wouldn't have to be in a chart, it could also be integrated with the main text and still be understood.