Re: Marche: VMS zodiac based on Hermetic sources going back to Dendera

[reeds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jim Reeds)]

On Oct 6, 16:10, Dennis wrote:

...

> 	Finally, we've seen a letter with embellishments that
> look exactly like the gallows letters.  From a note by
> Jim Reeds:
> 
> > But I can refer to one of the few photographic facsimilies in my copy (well,
> > really my wife's copy) of Cappelli's Dizionario (the 1967 reprint of what
> > appears to be the 1929 edition), namely "Tavola IV", which shows a letter
> > "1172, Giugno 13 -- Savino abbate del monastero di S. Savino in Piacenza
> > investe il mugnaio Gerardo Albarola per se e suoi eredi maschi in perpetuo,
> > di un mulio di ragione del detto moasstero -- Scritura carolina. --
> > Pergamena origen., conservata nell'Archivio di Stato di Parma, monastero
> > di S. Savino." with glorious gallows letters all over it.
> 
> 	I can hardly describe the excitement that swept
> through the list when we saw a scan of this page!!
> We've seen so few things as definite.  However, I don't
> know the date of this letter.   

My letter to this list was dated Saturday, 1 Feb 1992, and again
on Monday 9 June 1997.  The letter illustrated in Cappelli is 
dated Tuesday 13 June 1172. 



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