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[Bluetoes101]

Don't know if relevant to VMS, but a while back I found people using stacked dots in code/abbreviation from the first quarter of the 15th century.


"the word “oblates” for wafers in the instructions is coded into stacked dots leaving only “bl” legible."
Item scribe in iij. [4 stacked dots]bl [1 dot ] t[3dots] xps vincit sabaoth In altera xpc regnat agios. In 3cia . xpc imperat saday


Interestingly it is written by someone who on the same page writes out instructions on the "ante portas charm" 

"(1) Petrus stabat ante portas (2) Crux sacra + Crux splendida + Crux salua . . . (3) In monte cebon requiescunt vii dormientes (4) + Hel + Heloy +ya (5) in dextera palmi . . . fac 3es cruces (6) In nomine . . . Christus vincit + christus regnat. (7) In nomine . . . on . + on . + on . invokes holy names. (8) In nomine . . . christus vincit + christus regnat + christus imperat conjures the fevers by types. (9) Cape et diuide in tres et scribe"

Annoyingly it is part of Royal MS 12 B XXV which isn't available online, but it is noted "the MS. has evidently been used, not very intelligently, by the scribe of Sloane MS.282, in which nearly all the articles are copied." ... Sloane MS.282 also isn't available