[split] Big f116v spillover thread.

[Jorge_Stolfi]

If it really is a ‘p’, it’s the same.  ‘pald-en’ – a sound shift. ‘bald ein / bald ihn’ .  And it’s still German. Here, too, it works in Alemannic just as it does in Bavarian.  pbren’ – I’ve no idea.

I will grant you this much: the poor clod who was trying to recover the lost text spoke some Germanic dialect.  Maybe he could chew some Latin.  If the accident happened after 1500 or so, he must have had some idea of what 15th century German letter shapes looked like.

So he struggled to parse the smudges into Germanisch or Latinorum words in 15th century script.  But there was no way to ignore those long straight descenders: the only plausible letter that had them was "p".  So he ended up with "paldcn pbren" or "paldcn pbrey".  And he was just as baffled as we are now.

All the best, --stolfi