26-06-2021, 02:30 PM
(26-06-2021, 01:11 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Greek for "Holy Mary" is, according to the wiki list linked above Ἁγία Μαρία. This is so close to the VM's "ahia maria" that I'm starting to wonder why it is not yet generally accepted as the most likely reading.I am also really surprised with this. In the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. I wrote:
Quote:What if the second line is a mix only of two languages: Latin and Greek (in Latin transliteration)?And from my You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.:
ανχητον όλα dabas μίλτος τε τάρ tere portas
I just think that όλα is not a correct form of the word, possibly, sribe's mistake. So, perhaps, it must be:
ανχητον όλο dabas μίλτος τε τάρ tere portas
(you added all anchiton, ochres, and so, rub gates [...])
Quote:I looked through the thread quickly and payd attention to ReneZ's post where he wrote that someone supposed that the word "ahia" may mean "hagia". In the light of my later examination, it is one more evidence that the scribe uses Latin transliteration of some Greek words. "αγια Μαρια" is really common Greek word combination, an analogue of "Saint Mary". The scribe just uses not usual transliteration "agios", "agia", but changes "g" with "h".And no one seems to be interest in the latter. I understand that this thread have became too long and the information gets lost in this big data. So, probably, I was to summarize these two posts, to accent on that that the two lines of the marginalia can contain 6 Greek words among the rest text (Latin and magic words). In this case, these two lines becomes absolutely readable and comprehensible, besides, of course, the magic words. I think the mix of the two languages and transliteration of the Greek words into Latin are intentional, to obscure the meaning of the text, to make it look more magic for a pacient.
The result:
ανχητον όλο dabas μίλτος τε τάρ tere portas
six (fix) + marix + morix + vix αγια Μα+ρια
I would add that usually anchiton is associated with purity, purification, and miltos - with blood. So, I suppose it quite can relate to the purification of the blood.
I think there is nothing unusual if a scribe makes mistakes in transliteration from another language, there are mass of such errors in manuscripts and books.


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