Finding parallels for Month Names handwriting (Work in Progress)

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I tried to set up the sheet in an intuitive way, but please let me know if you have any questions or remarks. Any help is greatly appreciated!

I mentioned before my theory for why the language of the month names has been so hard to identify.  (It is distinct from my theory for why the language and translation of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. have failed us; although the two are similar in a very general sense.)

For that reason, I think it would be prudent to consider the letter style and the language as two separate and independent puzzles.  

That said, here is a sample of the month name April spelled as "abril" (with b) from the report of the "discovery" of Brazil on 22 April 1500, in Portuguese:
   
The first two words on the middle line are "dias dabril" = "days of April", from the sentence "And so we proceeded on our way through this sea all along until tuesday of the eights or easter which were the xxj days of april that we ran into some signs of land ..."

The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and its You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (into modern Portuguese) are available online.

All the best, --jorge