Re: VMs: Another VMS herbal lookalike

["Maurizio M. Gavioli" <mmg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 13:00 13/02/2004 +0100, elvogt@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Zitat von "J.Siemons" <siem@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Is this posted before?>
> > http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/bodl/130.htm>
> > English,11th century too again.
>
> Fol44r is interesting. Along with the following pages, it looks like the "key
> pages" found in the VM.

Well, it seems to me a rather regular list of local names (sp.?) ("Other 
[call it] "partemeon", French [call it] "oblaodia", other "diocolofam", 
Neapolitan "obulatia"...)

> And note the bottom line on f44r... half of it written in small caps, half of
> it in minor letters... I guess that would throw anyone trying to decode the
> latin alphabet seriously off the track. Especially since the sentence in caps
> doesn't seem to bear any particular significance (like a chapter heading or
> such).

"SI VOLUERIS SCIRE VIRTUREM EIUS, Facies eum...": If you want to know its 
powers, make it..."

At 12:14 13/02/2004 +0000, Gabriel Landini wrote:
> Word 11 from the left column reads: Spam :-)

Do you refer to f. 44v? There, the 11-th word actually "Spani", i.e. 
"Spanish"...

Maurizio


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