Re: VMs: Tironian notes

["Robert Teague" <rteague@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I certainly suspect that, because they occasionally appear repeated in
> sequences (and I've flagged on instance where the author appears to have
> tried to hide this), <ar> and <or> are most likely to code for "M", "C",
or
> "X". If I was making a code 1400-1500, I'd have been sure to discard
> repeated symbols wherever possible... but one place where you wouldn't
> really have that latitude would be in Roman numerals. And there's no
> evidence of any other numbers! :-o

Sure there are-- the number/letter correspondences on f49v. The dates
found using them match the astronomical diagrams too well for it to be
a coincidence.

Robert

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