Monica Yokubinas > 13-08-2019, 06:58 PM
(13-08-2019, 06:50 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(13-08-2019, 02:23 PM)Monica Yokubinas Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If the letters in the root of 4r are 'rot' German for red, then since these letters are also shone separately, on page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. then this would suggest that you can plug in the rest of the German alphabet and solve the entire book...
No, I don't see the logic in this.
Putting annotations in German doesn't mean the language of the main text is German. Annotations can be in German and the manuscript might be in Italian or Latin. The scribe and the painter were usually different people, and it's even possible that an annotator might be someone different, as well (like the medieval version of a botanist brought in as an advisor).
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Monica Yokubinas > 13-08-2019, 07:35 PM
(13-08-2019, 07:08 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Monica, there are German words on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. so the presence of German annotations would not be especially surprising.
I have seen German notations in an Italian manuscript and there were only a few of them. They do not always annotate numerous colors. Sometimes it's only one or two. Sometimes there is only one annotation for one color on one plant.
It would be extremely unusual to see a manuscript where someone has gone through and annotated everything. I've never seen it.
There is also the possibility of "por" on the Viola folio, which stands for purple in several languages. Rot is not necessarily German, but it is common in Germanic languages and it is mostly likely to be German. The g for "green" on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. could be many languages.
German is not contradictory to your idea that the VMS is in Hebrew. There were many Ashkenaz at the time, before the purges and the holocaust, so Hebrew and German/Yiddish together would not be strange.
I'm not saying they are German, only that they mostly appear to be German. There aren't very many of them, so it's hard to be sure.
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