-JKP- > 04-10-2018, 06:07 AM
(04-10-2018, 05:30 AM)Pelling-as-quoted-by-Diane Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Looking more closely at the first word, there's a fine horizontal bar through the (later alteration) 'a', indicating that its second letter could well have originally been 'e' - making the whole word probably "meilhor" (presumably in a Romance language, derived from the Latin melior as in 'ameliorate').
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[Notes - by me]. Nick is mistaken in seeing the script's 'l' as peculiarly Germanic. It's just a form of Gothic script and occurs in France and in England and elsewhere.
-JKP- > 04-10-2018, 06:11 AM
(04-10-2018, 05:30 AM)Diane Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
Medieval dialects were spoken languages, few used by the literate classes and they actually formed a continuum across the geographic areas - which is why there is debate over whether the Voynich month-names are Judeo-Catalan, or Occitan etc. and why e.g. even today, English dialects include ones where e.g. 'done' is always used where standard English demands 'did'. For all we know, the Voynich marginalia represent notes added to the manuscript from information given by non-literate persons whose dialect isn't straight 'Occitan' or 'Catalan' or 'French' according to modern classificiation..... For all we know.
-JKP- > 04-10-2018, 06:18 AM
(04-10-2018, 05:30 AM)Diane Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In the Beinecke library scans, the fourth word (which starts with a curious letter) looks like kou, while the subsequent words fade right away (despite the apparent emendation). It seems that the whole line was therefore originally a complete Occitan sentence starting with "meilhor aller lutz (kou)..." meaning mystifyingly something like "to run light better"...
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