VMs: Medeltidshandskrift 47

[Knox Mix <knoxmix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Pelling wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> At 09:55 23/11/2004 +0000, Rob Hicks wrote:
>
> > This is a more interesting find than I first thought - lots of 
> > VMSness.  Check out the pair of dice on 47v, with corresponding table 
> > of letters and numbers.  Why would an astronomer need to roll dice?
>
>
> Perhaps the answer is in the adjacent pages, waiting to be read? It 
> might be worth emailing the university to see if there is anything 
> published on Mh 47 - though I'd be surprised if there's anything so 
> useful as a complete transcript of it. But we shall see! :-)
>
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....

Hello,

This page, Mh47, looks like tabulation without calculation or anything 
to do with dice other than the pip combinations, 2-12. I see "b" over 
two different numbers: 61 and 101, the 101 being the same as for "ba". I 
expect a mundane reason for the line header sequence (16, 9, 1, etc.). I 
would like to know what it is, though. When I was looking at this (I 
think it was this one) yesterday, I noticed two instances of "4" being 
written in the "old" way (like "l" or "e") so maybe the style was in 
transition about that time in the place it was written. What are the 
first and last words on the header and the words of all of the footer? 
The conglomerate glyphs before the years are what? "of our Lord"? I do 
not see anything to connect it to the VMS? Maybe I should look closer. 
Good painstaking work in the diagrams.

Medeltidshandskrift. This is similar to a problem in preparing 
comparison documents, whether to separate or combine hyphenated words. 
It seems the tendency before the strong use of hyphens was to separate 
the words but now we tend to combine them.

Regards,

Knox
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