Re: VMs: RE: RE: Cicco Simonetta / Sartirana / library...?

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

On Friday 25 Apr 2003 1:36 am, GC wrote:
> I agree that many of these glyphs are very common for the time
> period.  Some however, are not common at all, and at least four
> have only ONE known source, English shorthand.  These are the
> compounds on 57v.

Glen, which are those? Do you mean in the sequences?
Can you point to an example?

> There are also several other one-timers
> throughout the manuscript that are not so common, but can be found
> in early shorthand.

Interestingly, Cappelli lists 6 types of abbreviations in Latin and Italian:
1. by truncation
2. by contraction
3. abbreviation signs with a proper meaning
4. abbreviation signs with a relative meaning
5. by superscript characters (not sure whether 'sovrapposte' means this 
exactly) 
6. by conventional signs

Types 4 and 5 are bad news because they may encode for different things, yet 
look the same.

All these would -obviously- make the words short, but the same question pops 
up again: would it be possible to abbreviate the whole text and keep entropy 
low? 
There is *a lot* of material in Cappelli to keep one busy for a long time!

Cheers,

Gabriel

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