24-01-2026, 02:16 PM
While I don't really agree with Nick Pelling's Occitan reading of
...I admit I have no idea about Occitan.
Again I'd like to point out that we are not dealing with a few ambiguous words in an otherwise ordinary text, but that all marginalia are profoundly odd to the point of being unreadable. Looking at the odd German in f116v, we must consider the author used some vernacular dialect that deviates significantly from common spelling forms, omitting or switching letters. Combine this with the equally unorthodox and ambiguous glyphs we find in the marginalia. It's hard not to end up in some guessing game. Or seeing what you want to see which is symptomatic for the entire VM.
I still think the best way forward is trying to find similar glyph shapes and phrases in other manuscripts.
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...I admit I have no idea about Occitan.
Again I'd like to point out that we are not dealing with a few ambiguous words in an otherwise ordinary text, but that all marginalia are profoundly odd to the point of being unreadable. Looking at the odd German in f116v, we must consider the author used some vernacular dialect that deviates significantly from common spelling forms, omitting or switching letters. Combine this with the equally unorthodox and ambiguous glyphs we find in the marginalia. It's hard not to end up in some guessing game. Or seeing what you want to see which is symptomatic for the entire VM.
I still think the best way forward is trying to find similar glyph shapes and phrases in other manuscripts.