Info Of Enigma: Unpuzzling Hard Latin Readings Inwards Medieval Manuscripts

Enigma: Unpuzzling hard Latin readings inwards medieval manuscripts

Enigma helps scholars to decipher Latin words which are hard to read inwards medieval manuscripts. It is sometimes impossible to decipher all the letters inwards a word, for diverse reasons (difficult palaeography, unclear writing, harm to the document, etc.) If yous type the letters yous tin read as well as add together wildcards, Enigma volition listing the possible Latin forms, drawing from its database of to a greater extent than than 400 000 forms. 

Nota bene: Enigma does NOT solve abbreviations. To produce so, yous tin resort to A. Cappelli's famous dictionary, available online (ed. Milan, 1912, as well as ed. Leipzig, 1928). If yous cannot resolve an abbreviation, supercede it yesteryear a wildcard inwards your Enigma query.

 

In the champaign above, type inwards the letters that yous tin read inwards the medieval document. You tin role the next wildcards:

• The asterisk replaces whatever string of 0 to n characters. Examples:

  • *nimur

    Will recall all words ending amongst "nimur", whatever their beginning.

  • abst*

    Will recall words kickoff amongst "abst", whatever their ending.

  • *atel*

    Will recall words containing "atel", whatever their kickoff or their ending.
• A point replaces a unmarried grapheme (exactly one). Example:

  po..m*

  Will recall words kickoff amongst "po", followed yesteryear two characters, as well as as well as thus an "m": "polymita", "pomum", "ponemus", "postmodum", etc.
• If yous are unsure of the characters, yous tin lay them betwixt foursquare brackets. Example:

  [ad]ur*

  Will recall words kickoff amongst "aur" or amongst "dur".
• You tin equally good but count the publish of minims (vertical strokes) yous tin encounter yesteryear using an exclamation order for eack stroke, without deciding a priori whether those strokes shape letters i (1 minim), n or u (2 minims) or 1000 (3 minims). Example:

  a!!!!!!*tur

  Will recall all words kickoff amongst "a" followed yesteryear half-dozen vertical strokes inwards whatever combination of letters, as well as ending amongst "tur". The hits include "ammoneatur", "animatur", but equally good "annuntiatur", etc.