Month names collection / metastudy

[davidma]

There's a few things that make me say this but the main one is Octembre.

Well, this Octembre is a bit tricky:



The middle (e) could easily be an (o) and then it would be Octombre.. Or even, without the (m): why would that person put the straight line instead of an (m), if there is plenty of space for it?

Also, in my previous post here You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. you can see a page of a catalan manuscript where you can Find Juy' with circumflex y...

The e and o are quite different as you can observe too, it could be octombre, or Octobre like most french language manuscripts of the time, but it isn't, it's Octembre. As to why they used the line, it was a very common abbreviation used extensively by French language scribes at the time, and stylistically coherent with the rest of the VM months. It was probably just the way the writer was used to write those months. The y you have shown is not circumflex, it has a tittle, it's an important distinction. Tittled ys are found all over european manuscripts. The circumflex accent is a creation of 16th century french grammarians. The y in the VM has a circumflex accent, and not a tittle, like yours or others that you can see in the Drive document shared by Koen.