Re: VMs: Costamagna and abbreviation...

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Nick Pelling wrote:
> 
> It may well be that all we're missing is examples of heavily abbreviated
> scribal text from circa 1450 (I'd suggest from near Milan): and that the
> VMs is merely a heavily obfuscated version of this kind of text. Perhaps
> our next best step would be asking a palaeographer (perhaps a former
> student of Costamagna?) to suggest one such text?

	Sounds like a great idea!  Perhaps Gabrielle Ferri
could help?  
Or if we could indeed find a student of Costamanga?  Or
a student of 
Renaissance Latin?  Surely we could contact someone who
would know about such Ms.  

Dennis
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