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I have spent a lot of time in the French Military Archives at Chateau
Vincennes (just outside of Paris) and every time I am there I have to keep from
drooling all over the documents. What I wouldn't give to have 6 months to
thumb through as many boxes as I could get my hands on.
I am convinced that there are a ton of misfiled, mislabeled documents
floating around in all of those museaums/archives/libraries. Just to index
them all so one could find what you were looking for!
Wow. <sigh> someday.
****************************** Larry Roux Syracuse University lroux@xxxxxxx ******************************* >>> glenclaston@xxxxxxxxx 06/11/03 08:49PM >>> Nick wrote: If (as I believe) you're referring to the Georg Hayniger MS, there are some nice gallows-like characters at the start of the paragraphs on pages 22v - 24v. :-) Herbal, Nick, not alchemical... geez! :-) Search for herbal and you'll find a couple of very good entries, one anonymous with blue dolphins for roots in some drawings. Cooool!!! I get your point though. I really enjoy looking at manuscripts from all ages. The alchemicals and astronomicals have tons of VMS style abbreviations, even your 4o is in there somewhere. There's also an anonymous English treatise on ephemerides (1541 I think) where the writer writes the word "to" almost exactly like the VMS 4o. Some of the religious texts are pretty interesting as well. Many highly abbreviated pages, precursors to shorthand I would wager. What I wouldn't give to be able to spend months in the English libraries. Here in Texas medieval was the 1950's! :-) GC ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying: unsubscribe vms-list |