07-01-2020, 11:08 PM
With regard to a reading of "abia maria", v and b were also frequent transpositions. Some scribes even wrote b and v in almost identical ways except that the v was leaned just slightly backward.
If one reads it as a "v" then one gets avia maria (with ave maria being, of course, very well known).
If one reads it as a "v" then one gets avia maria (with ave maria being, of course, very well known).

