04-06-2026, 09:10 AM
(01-06-2026, 09:04 PM)Stefan Wirtz_2 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There is a bit of a contradiction:
Maybe there was an author with such idea; but the VMS was written by probably a small group of scribes.
To write all this as fluently as the texts do look, all involved persons would have had the need of understanding the "shorthand / abbreviation system" of the 'author', since even just copying such a non-natural writing would have been a hell.
That's correct. I'm taking into account Lisa Fagin Davis' assignment table.
Therefore, I interpret Folio 57v as a learning aid. Person 5 may have been supposed to learn step 1 "character substitution". This would be possible if another parchment with the plain text were placed on top. Step 2 "the reduction system" is of course more difficult to convey. But I don't think it's impossible.