Re: VMs: Antidotary labels...

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nick wrote:

>  ... in my experience, most apothecary measures
> in ms recipes of 1450 and before were normally
> in 1s, 2s, 4s, but (especially) 3s (because of
> its magical connotations) - echoes of which 
> unsophisticated measures I see reflected in the
> VMS' dain daiin daiiin.

Let's just throw this idea around a bit.
Remember that 'dan' also occurs, but, together
with daiiin it is much less frequent than dain and
daiin. So, which sequence would make more 
sense:
0, 1, 2, 3
1, 2, 3, 4
10, 11, 12, 13
11, 12, 13, 14
(more are possible of course).
I kind of like the second, because, perhaps, 'one'
is a word which could be left out as it is implicit,
and 4 would be written more frequently in an 
alternative manner (like Roman iiii and iv).
What would the alternative look like in the VMs?

To be honest, I'm not convinced that any of this
is right, since there are also 'ain' and 'aiin',
without the 'd' and how to explain them?

Cheers, Rene

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