04-11-2026, 08:49 PM
I was looking at some "mallior" today. It started here, which is a "mollior" that looks a lot like "mallior" (enough to fool OCR)
I'm going to keep my guessing and chatbot hallucinations to a minimum.. but please correct where wrong.
It seems to be a collection of words (and I guess meanings), the marginalia version looks more like "mollior"
1430 - Grammatische Sammelhandschrift - BSB Clm 14254
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So I wondered what "mollior" is and came across this, another one that fooled OCR.. but it's printed so easier to work with.
1579 - Melanchthon, Philipp: Syntaxis
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I found a translation here to confirm the chat bots meaning of "softer/softest"
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"Muscosi fontes et somno mollior herba,et quae vos rara viridis tegit arbutus umbra,solstitium pecori defendite: iam venit aestastorrida, iam lento turgent in palmite gemmae."
"You mossy springs, and lawns softer than sleep, and the green arbute that shields you with scanty shade, ward the noontide heat from my flock. Now comes the summer’s parching, now the buds swell on the pliant tendril."
This led me to this example, which is the most "mallior" of the "maybe mollior?"
1423 - Godefridus Heriliacensis. Paradisus animae. Petrus de Lemovicis. Johannes Kautsch. Humbertus de Romanis - BSB Clm 3780
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Chatbot waffle
Two lines above the highlighted word, the text seems to read something like ...in mallicia et duricia differentes, “differing in softness and hardness”. That is the same stem as mollior, spelled with the same a.
So this looks like the scribe’s habit, not a one-off smudge or an odd letterform. If both words really have a in that position, the scribe, or the exemplar he was copying, wrote mal- for mol-.
How far into "la-la land" is chatbot? Is there anything to "mollior" wrote "mallior"? Is it something else entirely?
I'm going to keep my guessing and chatbot hallucinations to a minimum.. but please correct where wrong.
It seems to be a collection of words (and I guess meanings), the marginalia version looks more like "mollior"
1430 - Grammatische Sammelhandschrift - BSB Clm 14254
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So I wondered what "mollior" is and came across this, another one that fooled OCR.. but it's printed so easier to work with.
1579 - Melanchthon, Philipp: Syntaxis
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I found a translation here to confirm the chat bots meaning of "softer/softest"
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"Muscosi fontes et somno mollior herba,et quae vos rara viridis tegit arbutus umbra,solstitium pecori defendite: iam venit aestastorrida, iam lento turgent in palmite gemmae."
"You mossy springs, and lawns softer than sleep, and the green arbute that shields you with scanty shade, ward the noontide heat from my flock. Now comes the summer’s parching, now the buds swell on the pliant tendril."
This led me to this example, which is the most "mallior" of the "maybe mollior?"
1423 - Godefridus Heriliacensis. Paradisus animae. Petrus de Lemovicis. Johannes Kautsch. Humbertus de Romanis - BSB Clm 3780
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Chatbot waffle
Two lines above the highlighted word, the text seems to read something like ...in mallicia et duricia differentes, “differing in softness and hardness”. That is the same stem as mollior, spelled with the same a.
So this looks like the scribe’s habit, not a one-off smudge or an odd letterform. If both words really have a in that position, the scribe, or the exemplar he was copying, wrote mal- for mol-.
How far into "la-la land" is chatbot? Is there anything to "mollior" wrote "mallior"? Is it something else entirely?
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