The connection of the spiked-e with bastarda/batarde was pointed out by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
It is certainly relevant. A problem we have is that bastarda was a highly calligraphic style and was often found in luxury books written by professional scribes whose job was creating such books. The 1460 Bodmer ms is a good example, a richly illustrated book commissioned by a noble bibliophile (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - “He was a significant collector of illuminated manuscripts, mostly newly commissioned from the best Flemish illuminators and scribes”).
The month names are at the opposite end of the quality spectrum: hasty informal notes squeezed and abbreviated to fit into small spaces. I still think that our best bet is looking at charters, which are typically written with an intermediated accuracy (not as badly as the months, not as carefully as a high-end book); they also come with a well-defined date and place, so they can help us understand more of when/where the month names were written. Private letters could be another interesting line to investigate (e.g. was Antoine's own script comparable with the scripts in the books he commissioned? - assuming he wrote some of his letters himself).
It is certainly relevant. A problem we have is that bastarda was a highly calligraphic style and was often found in luxury books written by professional scribes whose job was creating such books. The 1460 Bodmer ms is a good example, a richly illustrated book commissioned by a noble bibliophile (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - “He was a significant collector of illuminated manuscripts, mostly newly commissioned from the best Flemish illuminators and scribes”).
The month names are at the opposite end of the quality spectrum: hasty informal notes squeezed and abbreviated to fit into small spaces. I still think that our best bet is looking at charters, which are typically written with an intermediated accuracy (not as badly as the months, not as carefully as a high-end book); they also come with a well-defined date and place, so they can help us understand more of when/where the month names were written. Private letters could be another interesting line to investigate (e.g. was Antoine's own script comparable with the scripts in the books he commissioned? - assuming he wrote some of his letters himself).
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