01-10-2026, 03:45 AM
(30-09-2026, 06:26 PM)pjburkshire wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Is there any chance that you can contact someone in the Linguistics Department at a local university to help with translation?Oh yes- I have contacted the Slavistic Department of Sofia University; Praha University -Dr. Alena Černá- whose work on old Czech medical terminology is directly relevant to my research; Lisa Fagin Davis with a proposal to send her my translation of f116v.
None of them replied.
I am an independant researcher with no institutional affiliation. When such researchers write to a professor out of the blue- the email remains unanswered.
Such is the reality of academic life.
Nevertheless, I am writing this without any bitterness. I have published some of my works in Academia.edu, created an on line page also.
So I continue the work myself, when I have time. The problem is that I understand parts from here and there, but not everything.
It is not the language which is difficult, but the opaqueness of the coded writing:
Double meaning in the expressions;
abrevations and ligatures;
letters that can be read in multiple ways- ( n/d/r) ,P as P, Pr, F; etc;
a mixture of Latin, German and Slavic terms.

