16-08-2026, 03:41 AM
(14-08-2026, 05:10 PM)JoJo_Jost wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If someone refuses to acknowledge just how chaotic writing was in the Middle Ages
But you have not presented any evidence that the letter shapes used by a single person could be "chaotic"!
You have shown only a couple of examples where the "small s" was used in the middle of words. That could have been because that writer used "long s" and "small s" at random. But you have not shown that! He could also have had a rule -- only that it was not just "use small s before a word space, otherwise use long s".
And, again, the "short s" in your examples is a different letter shape than the "8" of f116v. As different as a Latin "B" from a Latin "8".
While for each letter on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. people have found other manuscripts with similar letters, AFAIK no one has found a single manuscript whose letter shapes match all the letters of f116v.
On the other hand, the script of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is truly "chaotic": the same letter is often written in two or more different shapes. AFAIK no one has shown a manuscript from that time with script as "chaotic" as that of f116v.
All the best, --stolfi
