VMs: Trivia (4)

["Petr Kazil" <kazil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A) While waiting for my books at the Royal Dutch Library I scanned their
massive dictionaries. Of course I didn't find "michiton oladabas". I
didn't even come close:

Latin:

michi -> mihi

Althochdeutsch:

mic -> mih
mihhilon / michilon = praise, glorify
dabi / dauba / daubaz = deaf, deafened

French, Italian and Greek had nothing that came even this close.

B) While waiting for my books at the Royal Dutch Library I scanned the
library catalogue. Some titles might be worth a return visit:

Capelli Adriano
Dizionario di abbreviature latine ed italiane
1949 (reproduction of 1899 edition)

W.M. Lindsday - Notae Latinae AD 700 - 850
Doris Bains - Notae Latinae AD 850 - 1050
Abbreviations in Latin MS
(probably too early for us)

Paolo Squatriti
Working with water in Medieval Europe
Technology and resource use
(piping?)

Jane L. Jervis
Cometary theory in fifteenth century Europe
(mystical pictures?)

David Conradi
Cryptographia denudata
Lyons, 1739
(they have an original copy, but I can only read easy church-latin)

C) They don't have the "Codebreakers" and almost none of the books from
Brumbaughs bibliography. They also don't have d'Imperio.

D) The last time a Dutchman borrowed Brumbaugh from the Royal Library was
in 1997. He lives in Amsterdam. He left the paper label in the book, so now
I
have his address :-)

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