Re: VMs: RE: Writing in plant illustrations

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In both images it seems to me that the writing is
> "rot", similarly to what 
> appears in f4r in the stem (people, me included,
> thought it said "tor").

When I saw the VMs, it struck me (top to bottom)
as Greek: tau - omicron - rotated tau.
Then if you turn the page clockwise 90 deg
again it says tau - omicron - rotated tau.

Doesn't mean very much. I was actually hoping
that the 'rotated tau' was one of the lost Greek
characters, which was still used in the representation
of numbers, and that it said '365'. 

I am largely unconvinced by my own inter-
pretation and would suggest that a real
paleographer says what these symbols are and
where they might come/date from.

Cheers, Rene


		
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