23-06-2026, 01:26 PM
I have already touched on a similar topic in the "Did the scribes rewrite the letters correctly?" thread. But this is more likely a mistake of the scribe, who copied the texts of the author of the manuscript onto parchment, because he simply did not understand what he was writing.
Your example with qotshy dytshy gotshy qoky can be explained as follows: the author's draft had a very unclear spelling of the word, but the scribe needed to rewrite it in a readable form. These iterations may be just an indicator of how he tried to translate this word in his own letters, which he brought out, thinking that he had figured out the author's notes.
But such minor errors do not complicate the decryption, but simply slow it down somewhat. I need to ask a more global question, which I asked and which I implied in my thread - or maybe the author's drafts and the manuscript don't fit at all because the scribe misunderstood what he was writing? And although this is unlikely, it is possible, because the author could look at the work done and realized that it was possible to sell it, thereby compensating for the cost of writing the book, and he no longer cared whether the book was readable or not. I think, you don't throw away a 272-page book.
It's a good thing I don't believe it...
P.S. I've been thinking about this recently... What if the author's drafts were written in some Latin, but the handwriting was so disgusting that the scribe mistook it for an unknown alphabet and tried to rewrite them in that key?
Your example with qotshy dytshy gotshy qoky can be explained as follows: the author's draft had a very unclear spelling of the word, but the scribe needed to rewrite it in a readable form. These iterations may be just an indicator of how he tried to translate this word in his own letters, which he brought out, thinking that he had figured out the author's notes.
But such minor errors do not complicate the decryption, but simply slow it down somewhat. I need to ask a more global question, which I asked and which I implied in my thread - or maybe the author's drafts and the manuscript don't fit at all because the scribe misunderstood what he was writing? And although this is unlikely, it is possible, because the author could look at the work done and realized that it was possible to sell it, thereby compensating for the cost of writing the book, and he no longer cared whether the book was readable or not. I think, you don't throw away a 272-page book.
It's a good thing I don't believe it...
P.S. I've been thinking about this recently... What if the author's drafts were written in some Latin, but the handwriting was so disgusting that the scribe mistook it for an unknown alphabet and tried to rewrite them in that key?