02-01-2016, 10:18 AM
I once theorised that it read
y den mas DEP
And [they] give more RIP
In Spanish
Which could be something as simple as a Spanish speaker making an ironic comment about the woman having died from over / under feeding. Note the use of the subjunctive present mood (ellos den).
DEP is the traditional Spanish for RIP (descanse en paz / rest in peace or Requiescat in pace if you're old school).
The first mark (d) is necessarily an "amendement" but could simply be smudges caused by the ink not drying properly, especially as it's on the curve of the vellum.
The last glyph could likewise be a bad inking.
The amended letter on the last line has been amended. Could it be as simply as the writer mis-writing the letter d, and going back to make the upstroke more prominent? Maybe it was originally a lower case d and the writer realised it should have been an uppercase D?
y den mas DEP
And [they] give more RIP
In Spanish
Which could be something as simple as a Spanish speaker making an ironic comment about the woman having died from over / under feeding. Note the use of the subjunctive present mood (ellos den).
DEP is the traditional Spanish for RIP (descanse en paz / rest in peace or Requiescat in pace if you're old school).
The first mark (d) is necessarily an "amendement" but could simply be smudges caused by the ink not drying properly, especially as it's on the curve of the vellum.
The last glyph could likewise be a bad inking.
The amended letter on the last line has been amended. Could it be as simply as the writer mis-writing the letter d, and going back to make the upstroke more prominent? Maybe it was originally a lower case d and the writer realised it should have been an uppercase D?