"y den mas DEP"
That last letter in "mel/del" is a Gothic cursive "l".
It was commonly written that way throughout Lombardy (from eastern Spain to western Austria and as far north as Bury St. Edmunds) and is also written that way in the marginalia at the top of 17r and 116v. If you take this together with the fact that the other letters are in Gothic cursive, it's difficult to describe it as anything other than an "l".
I've collected hundreds of samples of Gothic cursive from the 14th to 16th century and while the "l" will vary as to whether the loop crosses the bottom and how straight it is across the top from writer to writer and within a particular writer's handwriting, so far I've never seen a P written that way, with a pointed loop together with no beginning tick.
That last letter in "mel/del" is a Gothic cursive "l".
It was commonly written that way throughout Lombardy (from eastern Spain to western Austria and as far north as Bury St. Edmunds) and is also written that way in the marginalia at the top of 17r and 116v. If you take this together with the fact that the other letters are in Gothic cursive, it's difficult to describe it as anything other than an "l".
I've collected hundreds of samples of Gothic cursive from the 14th to 16th century and while the "l" will vary as to whether the loop crosses the bottom and how straight it is across the top from writer to writer and within a particular writer's handwriting, so far I've never seen a P written that way, with a pointed loop together with no beginning tick.
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