(01-05-2025, 02:41 AM)Dobri wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Do you have an alternative specific symbol in mind?
Please provide evidence for comparison with You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
I don't think this is a good polemical device. The fact that I have no working hypothesis for these symbols doesn't mean any other hypothesis is more plausible.
But there is definitely no shortage of possible symbols to suggest. I've just opened the list of various You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and the glyph for Spiritus Vini does look somewhat similar. It's not a perfect match, but essentially it is a V/S combination depicting a vial with some vapor rising from it, so the embellished version of this symbol might look like in the VMS. I see no reason to distort a vertical 'm' just because it's larger, but making vapor look more vapory for aesthetic reasons - why not? It took me 5 minutes to find this parallel and I won't be surprised if after spending a few days I could find a more similar medieval rendition, but I won't be doing this, because I won't invest my time in an attempt based on visual similarity of a few elements, not after the manuscript has been known to the public, including professional medievalists and paleographers, for so many years. I'm not suggesting these attempts are pointless in general, but my skills are more in the numerical data analysis, so that's what I'm spending my time on.