I'm glad you're looking into this region, Anton. I feel it hasn't had enough attention.
I'll let you know how the handwriting scores in similarity to the 116v annotations.
Edit (addition): I got a score of 63 (out of 126) for similarity. Anything above 60 is good, above 70 is very good, and above 80 would be excellent, but is nearly impossible to find.
The main differences were small things, like the angles, the curves, the style of final-ess, "a" and "e" (although the e was written several different ways in the examples). The ascenders tend to be consistently shorter than VMS 116v and a little more curvy.
I'm looking at some of the handwriting that is in a similar score range and they are from all over (Vienna, England, Germany, Paris, Italy), so unfortunately, there are no geographic patterns, they all learned to write the same way. What's interesting, however, is that almost all the ones that score similarly were written between c. 1430 and c. 1480.
I'll let you know how the handwriting scores in similarity to the 116v annotations.
Edit (addition): I got a score of 63 (out of 126) for similarity. Anything above 60 is good, above 70 is very good, and above 80 would be excellent, but is nearly impossible to find.
The main differences were small things, like the angles, the curves, the style of final-ess, "a" and "e" (although the e was written several different ways in the examples). The ascenders tend to be consistently shorter than VMS 116v and a little more curvy.
I'm looking at some of the handwriting that is in a similar score range and they are from all over (Vienna, England, Germany, Paris, Italy), so unfortunately, there are no geographic patterns, they all learned to write the same way. What's interesting, however, is that almost all the ones that score similarly were written between c. 1430 and c. 1480.
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