Re: VMs: where labels recycled across folio sections

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Wayne Durden <wdurden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Here is an example which I think makes the point
> with regard to the 
> subject matter already mentioned:
> 
> On folio 101v2 the first row of labeled plants has
> an item I transcribe 
> as OTAL.  This label has two syllables or two sets
> of two characters 
> (digraphs) if one accepts the gallows as a T.  To my
> eye, this label 
> corresponds with the pointy capped plant which has 7
> leaves in case the 
> label or part of it is a numeric code.  If one
> counts the root points 
> the numeric code related to all or part of this
> label might perchance 
> be 9.
> 
> Now an example of the recycling can be seen for this
> on f82v.  There 
> are numerous labels there relating to nymphs and
> which do not appear in 
> any shape or form herbal in nature.  Most begin with
> OT.  Most have no 
> visible example of either 7 or 9 elements and so the
> OT digraph could 
> not be consistently a 7 or 9 across the entire
> manuscript.  

Hi!
I'm sorry, but to me this is not very conclusive.
"ot-" could mean 'green' or 'alive' or it could
be a type of classifier indicating a noun.
Or it could be the letter "capital I", for example
if the plant is Ivy and the nymph Irene.

More interestingly, it could mean 75 and 
they could all be words listed on page 75 of the
VMs-to-plaintext dictionary.

I could come up with more...

(Maybe I misunderstood what you were trying
to do - apologies if so).

Cheers, Rene

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