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[arca_libraria]

Thanks for that, but personally I don't favour it ahead of "anchiton".

Anchiton coupled with the gates of hell (tartere portas) looks to me more promising.

"Anchiton" is far from commonplace though, as we discussed earlier, so I think when and if anchiton is found elsewhere that would be a huge leap in the quest for the VMS provenance.

I have access to something known as the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., and I've just run "anchiton" and "nichiton" through the database without getting any hits. The database is huge, but there are limitiations: it's not great for medical Latin (I'll check eTK/eVK next) and it doesn't record things like marginalia, texts with hybrid Latin/vernacular language, or the millions of minor variations that exist in handwritten copies of texts.

I did not get any hits for "anchiton" or "nichiton". The database has two different wildcard searches, you can use a ? to specify that you only want a single character to be considered for that position (e.g. ?ept in English would only return 4-letter words ending in -ept) and * to specify 0, 1 or more wildcard letters. I searched for *chiton and I have attached a screenshot of my search results. I made the search as big as possible, with no restrictions on author, date, period, or any other way of limiting the results.

I am not especially surprised that the search did not find anything useful - the type of text on f. 116v, from the little that we can see, does not resemble an excerpt from the major classical or medieval texts, but I wanted to at least share my results so that you could see what I had tried.