Structural patterns in the VMS & Evaluating the Tironian shorthand hypothesis

[oshfdk]

The "Tironian" label is often just a shorthand way for researchers to say: "It's a system of abbreviations that we don't have the key for yet."

And "researchers" is often a shorthand way to say "we have no idea what we are doing" 

[CorwinFr]

The 286 blocks I count are the starred paragraphs ($I=S) across f103r-f116v.

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Try the book linked in that post. It not a herbal but a materia medica: a list of remedies and the diseases that they cure.   Most are plants, but a large fraction are animal products, and some are minerals.  The remedy's name is the part before the first ":" (pinyin) or '：' (hanzi).

It is a long thread, but everything before You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is now irrelevant.  If you care, you should start there.

All the best, --stolfi

This is... mind breaking... I will start by reading that and understand it deeply, so see ya till a long time. Thank you