[split] Discussion of f116v interpretations by Anton Alipov

[Anton]

I can't find an explanation for the -e-shape in walden though.

That is something I mused over yesterday. This shape looks like the Latin letter "c". Two possibilities present themselves:

- This is an "e", and it's top edge point passes on to the ascender of the subsequent "n". If you abstract from the parchment impairment in between "e" and "n", you'll see how this happens. Although this scenatio suggests that "e" was put down from bottom to top clockwise (so as to seamlessly pass over to "n"). I don't know if that was a normal way of writing in 15th c. Myself, I always write an "e" counterclockwise.

- This is a "c", making the word something like "valdcn" or "valdcz". "Valdcn" is just phonetically strange. As for "valdcz" (or "paldcz") - are there any posibilities out there? Something Czech, maybe?

There is a serious drawback to either gasmich or gas mich. They don't mean anything.

Oh well they do. Just please read the thread from the beginning.