Re: Nabatean, was Re: VMs: Personal Guess

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

GC wrote:
> 
> Jeff wrote:
> 
> > While the character form comparison may appear to hang on flimsy threads
> > this does not rule out that an offshooot of nabataean script or of some
> > other middle eastern script was not used. 

	I think that the connections with established European
precedents make
more sense, by Occam's Razor:

	- medieval Latin abbreviations, as per D'Imperio
	- Renaissance cipher scripts, seen in Trandechino
	- gallows embellishments, very clearly related, albeit 
		with attestation from 1050-1350, rather earlier
		than the probable VMs 1450-1550
	- the humanist hand, 1450-1500
	- Tironan notae, altho here I'm less familiar and more 
		sceptical.

	I concur with most of Glen's comments on the date. 
The remarks above 
on script also place it in the same time frame.

> One examination (posted
> on Rene's site, but I can't remember her name, Julie Porter?  I may be
> wrong....), identified clothing and hats at between 1480 and 1520.

	It was Julie Porter.

Dennis
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