(05-10-2020, 08:58 PM)Aga Tentakulus wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[large illustration deleted to save space]
And sometimes there are no typos.
Spelling variations are not only time dependent, but also location dependent.
Song of the Nibelungs.
Therefore, page 66. "and the mus des"
It comes from the Bavarian and fits exactly into the world of the battlements.
The German text has no mistakes, only a limited writing style in terms of time.
Aga, I am not sure that I would call those spelling variations. If you write a word with hump-r or regular r, it's not a spelling variation, it's simply a variation in the shape of the letter.
Similarly, if you write a word with long-ess, a snake-shaped ess, or a B-shaped ess, it is still the letter "s". The spelling didn't change, only the shape of the letter.
The example you circled with rotated-m (it looks like "z" and it usually stands for "m", "n", or "em" and their homonyms) could be considered a spelling variation, since it is an abbreviation symbol.
The examples that you pointed out in the illustration are very common variations. I see them every day in German manuscripts and there is never a problem with reading them. The variations in the VMS on 116v, 17r, and 66 are not common variations.