• Page numbering was done by at least 4 scribes.
  • Page numbering was done by at least 4 scribes.

    Wladimir D > 30-06-2022, 06:56 PM

    Finally, I finished a blog dedicated to numbers. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

    I would be grateful for examples indicating the territories where the ordinal number octavus is written through U, W, V.
  • RE: Page numbering was done by at least 4 scribes.

    Aga Tentakulus > 30-06-2022, 08:09 PM

       
    I was just there and read it. I think you have some thinking errors.
    Here it has nothing to do with the ending "us". It's just numbers 29,39,49

    With the written "nig + zig + cig"...
    So they are numbers in words. Example: zwanzig, dreisig, vierzig ...  twenty, thirty, forty.
    Here, as an example, "2zig"= zwanzig twenty.

    "nig" is an Allemanic variant. "10nig" zänig  is a number.
    In Switzerland it is sometimes still used, rarely, but it is there.
  • RE: Page numbering was done by at least 4 scribes.

    Wladimir D > 30-06-2022, 08:30 PM

    What you highlighted with a red circle is an insert from vms. The numbering of sections in the proposed manuscript is duplicated in words.
  • RE: Page numbering was done by at least 4 scribes.

    Helmut Winkler > 30-06-2022, 11:00 PM

    Since I have to read W.s blog with the help of a translation tool, I'll read it again tomorrow, when I am less sleepy.

    Just two remarks:

    1) I am not sure everyone is aware of the fact, that the quire numbers are somewhere late 15th c. and the foliation is a lot later, maybe (I think so) as late as the 17th c.

    2) If you write octavus or  octauus is a question off the script you are using, it is nothing to do with region or dialect, common for the 15th c. is the writing with u, the v goes nearly out of use, the humanists used it more again, but you can have a mixed use as well as you can see in the ms. you are quoting

    As I have said before, I am very doubtful re different scribes, the numerals used on the quires could well be from the original scribe, the foliation is sure from a different scribe and there are the marginalia and 116v of course
  • RE: Page numbering was done by at least 4 scribes.

    Wladimir D > 01-07-2022, 02:53 AM

    Thanks Helmut.
    Explanation
    The numbers of the hands (3 in total) that numbered the notebooks do not correspond to the numbers of the hands that numbered the pages (4+?).
  • RE: Page numbering was done by at least 4 scribes.

    Koen G > 01-07-2022, 08:44 AM

    In what kind of situation would so many people number the pages? This sounds extremely unlikely to me - if you start numbering something, wouldn't you number it all the way through?
  • RE: Page numbering was done by at least 4 scribes.

    Wladimir D > 01-07-2022, 09:16 AM

    For example, if the page number was used as a "quality mark" (personal signature) when checking the text by different people. And in the case of tricky coding, this is a time-consuming process. There were revisions and corrections!