Re: VMs: f112r-f112v

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Nick Pelling wrote:

> Now you're starting to ask the right question - basically, if the VMs is 
> (in some way) a copy of a pre-existing document, why on earth would 
> someone go to the trouble of copying a gap?
>
> Perhaps the original was also enciphered or in a non-obvious shorthand, 
> so the copyist has tried to retain incidental detail where the meaning 
> was uncertain?

	This is Stolfi's Ignorant Scribe hypothesis, of course. 
Look for his comments on that.

> > I was just wondering if
> > such spots are a known problem with old manuscripts and have parallels in
> > things we can actually read.
>
> I personally haven't heard or read of any, but a codicologist would 
> probably be able to say yea or nay with far more certainty.

	This keeps coming up; we could certainly use an expert on 
old manuscripts.   If anyone could get such a person to just 
take a look at it, it would help a lot.  With the sids they 
could tell quite a bit without a direct physical examination.

	I don't recall us ever having someone like that.  The 
nearest I remember was Lorraine Abram, who specialized in 
Slavic Ms.  Does anyone else remember someone?  Or know someone?

Dennis
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