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

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I really don't have any idea where I took it from. It probably
looked diferent (the alphabet). Do you have another version of it ?

Right about this "solar" calender which looks like  a lunar one.
I have to take a look at it again, I was expecting that the inner
circle symbols to be A(1) B(2) G(3) D(4) E(5) Q(6) and Z(7).

Some other thing I just noticed. As you know the vms has 6 divisions
but one of them has 2 symbols (eg). This one has a star with 6
subdivisions, one of them, NE, corresponds to 2 inner symbols. If you 
merge them ...   Nah, that's too far fetched, maybe the carver missed it 
or is eroded.


Regards,
Florin 

PS. It does says solar circle.

>On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Nick Pelling wrote:

> 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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