f17r

[schimmelchampagne]

I'm the linguist who thinks that You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is written mostly in an Old-Occitan-like Romance language -- that the first line reads pox leher isinon putis fer ("I can read [the following] and if not you can do").

I think that it is also true that You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is written in the same Old-Occitan-like Romance language, and that the first few words are something like mellior albor lutz̅ her, where the first word is perhaps the word for "better" (I have some thoughts on the first vowel); the second word is the Old Occitan word for "dawn" or "morning light"; the third word is an inflected but abbreviated (with a macron) form of the verb luzir meaning "shine" (or is otherwise somehow related to Old Occitan lutz "light"); and the final word is the Old Occitan word for "yesterday."  Perhaps this meant something like "a better dawn shone yesterday." I can't figure out what the following word says. Maybe, with the "ia" ending, it is a place name: "A better dawn shone yesterday on X." 

I'll reiterate that I'm not sure this person was a native speaker of this Romance language; perhaps they were instead a native speaker of the Germanic language found in the final lines of f116v.