19-01-2026, 10:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 20-01-2026, 08:40 PM by Stefan Wirtz_2.)
The labels of zodiacs:
![[Image: 571eddd59ea46b6c271fb6b2ac8f30cc.jpg]](https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/57/1e/dd/571eddd59ea46b6c271fb6b2ac8f30cc.jpg)
The second version of "April" seems more like a later inserted small "u" above the link between "b" and "r".
Would read (and write) the VMS later added months' names as:
mars
aburil
may^ / may
jonj (EDIT: it is a jonj instead of „junj“)
iollet
augst
sebte'b~
octe'bre
noue'bre
This here comes close to that, this image is much younger:
(Thoinot Arbeau’s 1582 volume of practical astronomy)
![[Image: 16cda01a436b5c854250135c1e5b7ac4.jpg]](https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/16/cd/a0/16cda01a436b5c854250135c1e5b7ac4.jpg)
Seems like a version of french to me.
"Apuril" comes close to Aburil, Aberil.
Septe~bre, Oc´tobre, Noue~bre are some specials, pretty near to the "VMS months".
So the questions are:
is the "b" of "Aberil" and "Sebte'bre" really a "b", or is it meant or used used as a "p"....?
All months' names are partially cursive, several letters are linked with their neighbors. This detail alone takes them out of the 'normal' original VMS script.
Being printed rather similar in a book of 16th century, ~150 years younger than VMS: what proves the assumption that those month names even belong to original VMS script or are a written language of 15th century at all?
The second version of "April" seems more like a later inserted small "u" above the link between "b" and "r".
Would read (and write) the VMS later added months' names as:
mars
aburil
may^ / may
jonj (EDIT: it is a jonj instead of „junj“)
iollet
augst
sebte'b~
octe'bre
noue'bre
This here comes close to that, this image is much younger:
(Thoinot Arbeau’s 1582 volume of practical astronomy)
Seems like a version of french to me.
"Apuril" comes close to Aburil, Aberil.
Septe~bre, Oc´tobre, Noue~bre are some specials, pretty near to the "VMS months".
So the questions are:
is the "b" of "Aberil" and "Sebte'bre" really a "b", or is it meant or used used as a "p"....?
All months' names are partially cursive, several letters are linked with their neighbors. This detail alone takes them out of the 'normal' original VMS script.
Being printed rather similar in a book of 16th century, ~150 years younger than VMS: what proves the assumption that those month names even belong to original VMS script or are a written language of 15th century at all?