05-05-2023, 03:10 PM
@ Koen
1) I have used a software with a large zoom (Foxit PDF Readr, it is free software and everybody can do it for himself) on 116v and I am convinced that there is written 'geis' and not 'gas', the middle letters look different from the severak a's, it is a pity there is no other ei-combination. But it really is a job for someone with access to the original ms. and a strong magnifying glass (by the way, I think there is written anchiton). Gas meaning a geiss has a long a, Gas meaning oxygen has a short a, as you correctly remark, I would say gaas for Ziege is more or less South German, Ober- und Mitteldeutsch
2) When I say scribal mistake, I mean that the scribe has written mich instead of milch. The l in Milch is usually barely audible, it is a mistake someone who was used to writing Latin and had learned writing in Latinand was not used to writing German would easily make, even if he was a native German speaker.
3) Mixing up b and p and d and tmis a very common feature of some German dialects, for example my own Franconian dialect I easily say der Putter insstead of die Butter in colloquial speech. But I don't seemixing up Pox and box, box came into German as Lehnwort from English in the 19th c. Our pox seems to be a Genitive of Bock, which can mean several male animals, a Karnickelbock for example eis a male rabbit, to think of a billy goat is influenced by the cotext, e.g. the drawing in the margin
4) It is diffiult to decide on an area, bu I would say it is South German, the ms. looks Italian in some places, which would fit nicely
1) I have used a software with a large zoom (Foxit PDF Readr, it is free software and everybody can do it for himself) on 116v and I am convinced that there is written 'geis' and not 'gas', the middle letters look different from the severak a's, it is a pity there is no other ei-combination. But it really is a job for someone with access to the original ms. and a strong magnifying glass (by the way, I think there is written anchiton). Gas meaning a geiss has a long a, Gas meaning oxygen has a short a, as you correctly remark, I would say gaas for Ziege is more or less South German, Ober- und Mitteldeutsch
2) When I say scribal mistake, I mean that the scribe has written mich instead of milch. The l in Milch is usually barely audible, it is a mistake someone who was used to writing Latin and had learned writing in Latinand was not used to writing German would easily make, even if he was a native German speaker.
3) Mixing up b and p and d and tmis a very common feature of some German dialects, for example my own Franconian dialect I easily say der Putter insstead of die Butter in colloquial speech. But I don't seemixing up Pox and box, box came into German as Lehnwort from English in the 19th c. Our pox seems to be a Genitive of Bock, which can mean several male animals, a Karnickelbock for example eis a male rabbit, to think of a billy goat is influenced by the cotext, e.g. the drawing in the margin
4) It is diffiult to decide on an area, bu I would say it is South German, the ms. looks Italian in some places, which would fit nicely