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

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 15:39 09/06/2005 -0500, Florin wrote:
> > > http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~fion/vm/f69r.htm
> > 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?
>
> Tried (hard) to, but there is only a vague resemblance. This may be caused
> by the carving process or they are different symbols. I'm 50-50 on this.

May I ask what your source was for the Gothic alphabet? Perhaps Swedish 
Gothic circa 1500 might be noticeably different?

BTW, one odd thing is that the diagrams in MS 1577 are described as "solar 
calendars", yet the circular image shown is divided into 7 (rather than the 
VMs' 6), each of which is (apparently) divided into 4 (on the outermost 
ring), giving 28 divisions in total, which is surely more reminiscent of 
the lunar month than of the solar year?

The collection's description of MS 1577 talks of two (presumably separate?) 
solar calendars - perhaps the other one is more obviously a solar calendar 
than this...

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


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