26-01-2026, 10:49 AM
(26-01-2026, 10:28 AM)nablator wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(26-01-2026, 10:15 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think it can certainly be pre-1500.
Yes, could be. The 'e', and 'g' especially. There was a discussion about 'ŷ' written like a circumflex accent, not a tittle/dot, I don't remember what was the conclusion. Did we find any in 15th century manuscripts?
I don't believe we found any circumflex accents on y's in any french manuscripts really, it appears to be exceedingly rare. I was considering emailing some experts to ask if they had any idea but I wouldn't even know who to contact. Funily enough, someone posted on another thread an occitan manuscript with the month names and may appears to have some sort of accent on top in one of the different spellings found within that manuscript, definitely different from the tittle we have seen elsewhere. I don't have the link at hand but it's one of the recent threads, the "accented" y is on a big zodiac chart at the end of the zodiac section.