RE: 116v
Anton > 11-07-2018, 10:45 PM
The word following "palden-balden" is a tougher nut, provided that we agree that the first letter is "p" not "u".
Substituting the first "p" for "b" gives us nothing, because the second letter is "b" in itself.
Supposing the second letter is not a "b", but an erroneously emendated "h", this would be "phren" which in MHD meant "awl", but well it is not "h". The letter "h" is written differently in the text, with its curl propagating below the baseline.
One's hope is the unusual shape of the last letter which might suggest that the whole word is somehow abbreviated. But I don't see why it should be specifically "probiren". Are there any examples of contemporary German words being abbreviated with such particular shape as word ending? if yes, that might give us a clue.