@nablator
No, not at all! I'm actually proposing a direct comparison between the way the word is written in VMs text, and the way it is written in Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 169. Leave the EVA out of it entirely.
Given the various styles and hands in written text and the common potential to see the symbols as part of a familiar alphabet, the French words are clear enough in Febus and above. And in the VMs text, you don't need EVA to tell you that the VMs 'd' looks like a valid medieval 'd'. That is why "the folks at EVA" decided to call it a 'd'. At least that's the story I've heard. Some of the VMs symbol names are more closely aligned with their medieval equivalents than others. There are no problematic glyphs in d a i n. [Unless it's the 'n'.]
So, this is just superficial speculation, if you will, but if you were a medieval person, and you had read Febus relevant to dain, the fallow deer, and then you saw the word (XXXX) taken from the VMs, how would that word be read? What would be that person's interpretation? Could it be the same "word" in different handwriting?
No, not at all! I'm actually proposing a direct comparison between the way the word is written in VMs text, and the way it is written in Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 169. Leave the EVA out of it entirely.
Given the various styles and hands in written text and the common potential to see the symbols as part of a familiar alphabet, the French words are clear enough in Febus and above. And in the VMs text, you don't need EVA to tell you that the VMs 'd' looks like a valid medieval 'd'. That is why "the folks at EVA" decided to call it a 'd'. At least that's the story I've heard. Some of the VMs symbol names are more closely aligned with their medieval equivalents than others. There are no problematic glyphs in d a i n. [Unless it's the 'n'.]
So, this is just superficial speculation, if you will, but if you were a medieval person, and you had read Febus relevant to dain, the fallow deer, and then you saw the word (XXXX) taken from the VMs, how would that word be read? What would be that person's interpretation? Could it be the same "word" in different handwriting?