Re: VMs: Colored paints, touch-ups, and the michiton text

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bruce,

At 16:33 04/07/2004 -0400, Bruce Grant wrote:
> Nick Pelling wrote:
> > FWIW... IMO, this is just a c with a cedilla (but one that loops back on 
> > itself) - my best guess is therefore that the zodiac labels are basically 
> > Occitan.
>
> Any theories about why the manuscript would be labelled in Occitan? For 
> example, is it known to have spent any time in southern France, or to have 
> belonged to an Occitan speaker at some point?

I'm just reporting what "març" tells me - that an Occitan speaker somewhere 
probably not too far (culturally or physically) from Toulon owned the ms, 
and left his/her mark on the zodiac pages. Perhaps that might be sufficient 
for an astute observer to match up some of the sid-file marginalia against 
that particular hand... you never know! :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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