04-01-2026, 02:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-01-2026, 02:22 PM by Jorge_Stolfi.)
(04-01-2026, 01:46 PM)Legit wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If we continue to profile our scribe. Their spoken language is either medieval German or Italian.
The Scribe was probably from North Italy or Central Europe, judging by the style of dresses, castles, etc.
Quote:So their initial draft would be in one of these languages
The Author -- the person(s) who devised the alphabet, chose the contents, composed the text, specified the figures -- was probably not the same as the Scribe -- the person who actually put pen to vellum. There is some evidence and some arguments indicating that they were different persons; and AFAIK there is no evidence or argument for the opposite.
But even if the Scribe was the same as the Author, the underlying language of the VMS was not necessarily his native language. I bet that most vellum books written in Europe in the 1400s were in Latin, and many were in Greek or Hebrew; even though practically no one spoke those languages (outside of the Church and Greece, of course).
All the best, --stolfi