11-12-2023, 10:02 AM
@ Koen and who else may be interested
You have to get rid of some of the axioms of V. research, mainly that the text is a ciphre and that it is an unknown script and accept it as a medieval ms., weitten in a medieval script and language. Then you can look around what it could be and the amount of medieval abbr.is obvious.You then have the advantage of a readable text (you don't have to invent one) you can start to interpret and translate it. Not that I would try to pretend I can read or understand everything.
Just to give you a few examples: There is qo abbr. for quaestio, 9 for cum and an ending, ct for contra (which points to a Scholatic text), the dicit Avicenna (Canon) I mentioned before and dictum alberti (likely Magni, de vegetabilibus). There are more
You have to get rid of some of the axioms of V. research, mainly that the text is a ciphre and that it is an unknown script and accept it as a medieval ms., weitten in a medieval script and language. Then you can look around what it could be and the amount of medieval abbr.is obvious.You then have the advantage of a readable text (you don't have to invent one) you can start to interpret and translate it. Not that I would try to pretend I can read or understand everything.
Just to give you a few examples: There is qo abbr. for quaestio, 9 for cum and an ending, ct for contra (which points to a Scholatic text), the dicit Avicenna (Canon) I mentioned before and dictum alberti (likely Magni, de vegetabilibus). There are more