Mystery text :-)
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 11:09 am
Hello everyone,
This time a mystery text, instead of a mystery chart ? sorry for the poor pun :-)
As Deb was kind enough to post it in the news sections and Mark in the mundane one, I got inspired by a recent discussion on the forum and retyped William Lilly's Supernatural Sights and Apparitions and posted it online http://astrologyanswers.wordpress.com/2 ... paritions/ ? but still have some doubts about it. I would like to ask those forum members interested in the subject to take a look at the text and give me a hand resolving the issues ? not only those I mention but others I eventually could not even notice. Thanks in advance.
The dubious expressions are still in square brackets in the online form, the dots in the middle of a word are spaces of illegible/supposed letters.
1) page 4, last sentence: "It seemed to be [soll.d] / [sell.d] and firm?." ? could it be "sollid" (the first vocal is a round-backed one. like "o" or "e") in the original and thus "solid" in the modern form?
2) page 7, the monogram M.L., and the sidenote, marked by an * : "Merline is almost inclined to believe some that wore a crown were dying at time of this strange light, or in some jeopardy of losing their scepter. A wise people inclining to great indiscretion if not their undoing" ? the first sentence is more clear, while the second is incomprehensible for me, although the words written in the sidenote were apparently readable.
3) The most difficult piece: on page 8, the sidenote to the chart of "Conjunction of Jupiter & Mars" that seems to read:
LUCULO JOVIS
. . . . . M. D.
MARTIS i. o.
M. D.
(N.B. Mars and Jupiter are at Taurus 28?17', in the 11th House (and 11th sign))
Thanks for everyone,
Iris
This time a mystery text, instead of a mystery chart ? sorry for the poor pun :-)
As Deb was kind enough to post it in the news sections and Mark in the mundane one, I got inspired by a recent discussion on the forum and retyped William Lilly's Supernatural Sights and Apparitions and posted it online http://astrologyanswers.wordpress.com/2 ... paritions/ ? but still have some doubts about it. I would like to ask those forum members interested in the subject to take a look at the text and give me a hand resolving the issues ? not only those I mention but others I eventually could not even notice. Thanks in advance.
The dubious expressions are still in square brackets in the online form, the dots in the middle of a word are spaces of illegible/supposed letters.
1) page 4, last sentence: "It seemed to be [soll.d] / [sell.d] and firm?." ? could it be "sollid" (the first vocal is a round-backed one. like "o" or "e") in the original and thus "solid" in the modern form?
2) page 7, the monogram M.L., and the sidenote, marked by an * : "Merline is almost inclined to believe some that wore a crown were dying at time of this strange light, or in some jeopardy of losing their scepter. A wise people inclining to great indiscretion if not their undoing" ? the first sentence is more clear, while the second is incomprehensible for me, although the words written in the sidenote were apparently readable.
3) The most difficult piece: on page 8, the sidenote to the chart of "Conjunction of Jupiter & Mars" that seems to read:
LUCULO JOVIS
. . . . . M. D.
MARTIS i. o.
M. D.
(N.B. Mars and Jupiter are at Taurus 28?17', in the 11th House (and 11th sign))
Thanks for everyone,
Iris