VMs: Michiton oladabas

["GC" <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxx>]

On sleepless nights the whispers of the mind disturb the silence
of the darkness, so once again I'm up and jotting a note or two.

Something I had pondered some time ago and never followed up on is
the meaning of the marginalia on folio 116v.  Judging from the
structure of the words, it was somewhat obvious to me that I was
looking at an attempt to decipher a section of text, and that the
would-be decipherer was using a glyph-based transcription that
interpreted some of the VMS endings as Latin abbreviations.

It also occurred to me that all one would have to do to find the
section of text is to use the pattern "oladabas" as a starting
point and locate all "words" that fit the pattern of identical
glyhs for characters 3, 5, and 7.  This would narrow the field
dramatically and make it quite easy to prove or disprove this
theory in a very short time.

I obviously never did this search, and now I'm in the middle of a
new transcription, but this may be a project for anyone who finds
these assumptions reasonable.  It would be nice to know once and
for all the exact nature of this marginalia.

GC