07-08-2026, 04:42 PM
The German‑speaking participants of this forum did a lot of work to identify the words with f116v. Sometimes I want to believe them, but let me think it over for a moment...
If the text is only partially coherent, even though it contains errors, this could be an argument in favor of the hypothesis that scribe B (the author of the balneological texts and recipes) encoded the text incorrectly.
In particular, he could simply follow one rule. In balneology, there are many examples where most of the lines start with s. In such large numbers, it looks strange. Maybe the author told him how to mark the lines, and he decided to mark almost all the lines in this way...
If the text is only partially coherent, even though it contains errors, this could be an argument in favor of the hypothesis that scribe B (the author of the balneological texts and recipes) encoded the text incorrectly.
In particular, he could simply follow one rule. In balneology, there are many examples where most of the lines start with s. In such large numbers, it looks strange. Maybe the author told him how to mark the lines, and he decided to mark almost all the lines in this way...