VMs: Re: Libro de Astromagia

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 15 September 2002 4:50 pm, Jorge Stolfi wrote:
>     > [Gabriel:] Surprisingly I was able to read all the text in the
>     > circles (except a few); they are in Spanish (as the title).

> "figura de psenas de/mosquitas."            ("??? of little flies")

yes

> "figura de aecti/u~de"                      ("???")
"figure de tierra vde  [(verde?) green soil]

> "figura de õe/haziendo oi~on."              ("man doing prayer?")
yes "oracion" I think that the words with dots on top are abbreviated 


> "figura de õe desp~/ciado y desnudo."       ("man un??? and naked")
desgraciado?

>"figura de õe cõ una/??? doro."             ("man with a ???of gold") "figura 
"sortija" (a ring)

> water") "figura de õe que ??/??? sobre su uientre." ("man who ??? on his
> belly") 
"arrastra"? (crawl?)


> The word "õe" could be an abbreviation for something like "ombre" (as
> in modern Spanish "hombre") or simply a standard medieval spelling for
> "ome" or "omem" (as in modern Portuguese "homem", which btw does not
> pronounce the "h").

The letter h in Spanish is a posterior addition. Many words nowadays starting 
with "h" used to start with "f".

> The word "luxuriousa" probably may have had a different meaning then,
> and could have meant richly dressed, gorgeous, sensual, promiscuous, etc..

I think that you are right, The letter "x" changed to "j" so it probably means 
"lujuriosa", not "lujosa".

Cheers,
Gabriel