RE: VMs: Re: 67v: Single sticks, double-split, double-joined...

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 07:54 01/05/2005 -0400, John Grove wrote:
>         Whether they mark paragraphs or not isn't the point I think Erni 
> is making
> Gabriel. The point being those two characters are the closest to the big
> wierdo seen on f1r that we've seen preceding a paragraph of text. If they
> are used to mark paragraph beginnings and nothing else - then do they serve
> the same purpose in the VMS?

Surely the key issue is whether the Codex Mendoza is the only (non-VMs) 
document in which this symbol appears? On CM page 1v, both instances of it 
seem to have been written in a very assured and matter-of-fact way - that 
is, neither experimental nor mannered.

Have any experts on documents similar (or related) to the CM been asked if 
this symbol recurs elsewhere? This would seem to be the obvious first step 
in tracking it down.

To my modern eyes, the symbol looks a bit like looking at the outline of a 
opened, cover-down book through its spine, as though it's an iconographic 
reference to a book or volume - but I'm acutely aware that this is a modern 
projection onto what is actually an abstract shape. Regardless, what do the 
two paragraphs actually say?

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


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