116v

[MarcoP]

I see two important would-be-clues here: these two strange shapes - one in the beginning and the other is the circular shape which looks pretty like the one in the end of VMS f116v.

Hi Anton,
on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. there is a geomantic table with Latin examples of those two signs. They seem to be "upper case" versions of "F" and "V" (the "2" and the circular loop are flourishes applied to the basic shapes of the two letters).

The labels read (all feminine plural):
False (false)
Veridice (true)
Mediocrae (average)

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Very good catch, Marco. And wow! Look at the hodgepodge of languages that follows in the next two paragraphs!

[By the way, anchi is "hips" in Italian, isn't it? but there doesn't appear to be a space between anchi and anada and I don't recognize basa in anything other than Spanish.]

I am glad you too find this interesting, JKP!

Thank you very much also for your transcription. I will certainly go into this! But now I have only time to comment on "anchi" and "basa".
I agree with you that in both the VMS and Clm 671, anchi- seems to be a prefix of a longer word (like the "anchiton" that Searcher documented).

In modern Italian hip is "anca" and hips is "anche".
"anche" also is the conjunction "also"...sorry

In Italian, "basa" is the 3rd person singular of the verb "basare" (to base): "egli basa" "he bases"
"bassa" is the singular feminine of the adjective "basso" (low). I am sure that "basa" for "bassa" can be find in North-Eastern dialects (Veneto, Trento).
In the same dialects, "basare" can replace the Italian "baciare" (to kiss).