RE: VMs: michiton oladabas explained

["Philip Neal" <philipneal_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think far too much is made of these marginalia. It is very common
to find meaningless scribbles on the last pages of a manuscript:
they represent where the scribe was trying out his pen. I link to
some examples from this page


http://mysite.freeserve.com/philipneal_vms/analogues.html

(scroll down to Cologne University Library).

I would interpret FAS MEAS LAAS to mean 'fas meas litteras',
'it is right that these writings are mine', but inscriptions of
this kind seldom have any relevance to the actual contents of
the book.

Philip Neal


> Just one of those historical artifacts that needs to be studied
> in-depth is this "marginalia" thing.
>
> My copy of Banke's Herbal (1526) from the British Library also has
> marginalia on the title page, and this is also divided by the
> "plus" sign.
>
> It says (in jittery hand)  FAS + MEAS + LAAS.  Not only do we have
> the plus sign divisions here, the seemingly indecipherable words,
> but the "S" ending that is so common on folio 116v of the VMS.


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