(07-09-2016, 01:07 PM)Helmut Winkler wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Marco.
I think the last word in line 1 is "putrifer", at least it looks like it it to me when I analyze the single letters. The first line could be "poxleber p[ri]m[u]m putrifer", with could mean "Goats liver is as first to go into putrefaction", which would be what really happens. I feel quite sure of the reading, less of the translation and the line would very likely be a probatio pennae.
Thank you Helmut!
Is "putrifer" a documented Latin word? Or is it German?
I know of the close French "putrifier".
As Anton and JKP (see their letter-by-letter comments) I also have problems seeing the "i" in putrifer.
The sign between "t" and "f" seems to me very close to the "r" at the end of poxleber. So I can read putrfer, but not putrifer.
Putting together the suggestions of JKP and Anton, I get a list of about 300 candidate words. Since I am not familiar with German, it is of little use to me.
If the first letter can be a "K", then "kutpfer" for "kupfer" (copper) seems to me possible (but I have no idea of a possible connections with "pox leber" via "umen").
Can you get more reasonable candidate words from the combinations of the possible readings for the letters?