Marginalia - Individual Letters

[MarcoP]

Marco: for example, in the other thread, Helmut proposes a reading as "palden". So this either means that the "d" in "oladabas" must be something else, or that "d" can be shaped both like "d" and "8". Or does that mean we could read "oladabas" as "olasabad"?

My opinion is that a word-final 8-shape is  -s, but of course it is impossible to be certain, since the text is unreadable, or at least  mostly incomprehensible.

Paris posted You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. a 1473 example with 8-shaped Ds at line 1, a 9-shaped D (dilection) at line 2, and a d-shaped D at line 3 (commandons): different shapes for the same letter are not surprising. An identical shape corresponding to s and d  seems more unusual, but I really wouldn't exclude anything.