The Tepenecz signature in book no. 4: a concern

[-JKP-]

To my mind, there is a significant difference between the "bi" in Jacobi and the letter "p" in the Dialecta example, compared to the Ex Libris on the other printed books, but I have been withholding judgment until I have enough samples to verify this and to make it more clear for everyone looking at it (and I keep hoping more samples might turn up (or more multispectral images) while I'm doing the research).

I have been trying to palaeographically track this style of handwriting and had a somewhat surprising discovery along the way, but I don't have enough data yet to be sure of what I'm seeing.

For one thing, I want to be sure there is more than one handwriting rather than the same person with changed handwriting over time. For another, I need more samples to determine if this unexpected discovery has any relevance to the VMS.

The signature on the legal document does not match well with the handwritings on the books, which made me wonder the first time I saw it if a notary or attorney had signed on his behalf (it is in notarial style—I mean "notarial" in the general sense, not in the specific palaeographical-names sense).


I have not looked into the differences between the way the "number" abbreviation is written (No. 4). I haven't even given it much thought yet because I've been so busy with other aspects of the text.