Re: VMs: From "Look Alike" Series, starring f69r ...

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No connection between calendar and gothic alphabet, I had two things 
in my mind and I intermixed them :). I'll post the document on Monday
maybe it is just an artifact that dot in the O.  

Regards,
Florin
> 
> At 09:20 09/06/2005 -0500, Florin wrote:
> >"Look" is the central rosette from f69r, "Alike" is from a 1500 solar
> >calendar, carved in wood, origin Sweeden, from Schoyen collection.
> >A head-to-head comparation can be found here :
> >http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~fion/vm/f69r.htm
> 
> A fascinating find, thanks Florin! Here is its description in the Schoyen 
> collection itself:-
>          http://www.nb.no/baser/schoyen/5/5.7/index.html#1577
>          http://www.nb.no/baser/schoyen/5/5.7/ms1577.jpg
> 
>          MS 1577
> 
>          CALENDAR WITH WEEKDAYS, GOLDEN NUMBERS, TABULA
>          SIGNORUM, SOLAR CIRCLE, AND FEAST DAYS
> 
>          MS in Swedish on ivory, Sweden, ca. 1500, 9 ff., 6x12 cm, single
>          column, (6x11 cm), 4-6 lines in Runes of the younger Futhark,
>          some saints' names added later in French in capitals, 1 solar
>          circle drawn like a ropework spiked wheel with solar numbers
>          in runes, another drawn like a spiked wheel with solar
>          numbers in Gothic book script of medium to low grade and
>          quality, 32 feast day symbols indicated with symbols, runes,
>          crosses and fishes in black and red, 80 drawings of saints
>          in black and red copied after a Flemish book of hours,
>          use of Brughes.
> 
>          Binding: Sweden, ca. 1500, ivory covers fastened with a modern
>          string through 2 holes, astronomic diagrams on both covers.
> 
>          Provenance: 1. Charles Ratton Collection, Paris (d. 1984);
>          2. Sandra Hindman, Chicago (1991-).
> 
>          Commentary: Calendars in bookform made on ivory are of the
>          utmost rarity. This is probably the most extensively illustrated
>          example extant, and the only specimen in private hands.
> 
>          Exhibited: "The Story of Time", Queen's House at the National
>          Maritime Museum and The Royal Observatory, Greenwich,
>          Dec. 1999 - Sept. 2000.
> 
> >For completeness  I included the Gothic alphabet.
> 
> Can you link the two together? Perhaps I'm just rubbish at reading "medium 
> to low grade" Gothic, but I can't link the alphabet with the letters in the 
> diagram nicely - any suggestions?
> 
> >2. Arguably, the following two Gothic characters after the X can also be
> >found on f116v. I was mostly interesting in that O with a dot in the
> >middle. I  have another document written (Benedictan prayer or hymn) in a
> >similar way, words intermixed with cross signs and O with a dot in the
> >middle. Has anyone  seen something similar ?
> 
> Read Richard Kieckhefer's (1989) "Magic in the Middle Ages", chapter 4 
> (p.56ff), particularly the section on "charms: prayers, blessings and 
> abjurations" (p.69), etc. Intermixed cross signs were commonly found in all 
> of them: "pax + pix + abyra + syth + samasic", etc.
> 
> The O-with-a-dot-in-the-middle I don't know anything about, though, sorry. :-(
> 
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 

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