Last edited on 1998-11-28 22:39:53 by stolfi 1998-11-18 stolfi While waiting for a long compile to finish, I queried Altavista for various combinations of the conjectured f116v words--- "valde", "nim", "mich", etc. I learned that the reading "valde = very" is not German (as I had wrongly assumed when reading the e-mail archives), but Latin. Thus, queries of the form "valde AND xxx", where "xxx" is a Germanic word, return many medieval documents from Central Europe, where the two languages are likely to be used together. (However "valde" is also a word in modern Swedish and Latvian, and Swedish too are "nim" and "mich", so those hits are sometimes overwhelmed by Scandinavian pages. I have filtered those out in what follows.) Petrowicz, Gregorio Miabanog agbayrnere ev hay ekeglec'in Die Unitoren und die armenische Kirche, 1330 - 1360 Vienna. 1971 82 S. arm. Ter-Mikaelian, Nerses X: Colum cille cend Alban, Colum Cille, Alba's head, X: grinde im ghargbladh tar keen for fierce fame over X: gargler, rough seas, X: Da klokken blev tolv midnat X: gik Valde hjemme fra. X: Fast besluttet pĺ at ĺbne dřren. X: Valde gik hen....og ĺbnede den. X: Iisik, siisik, sikker, maasik X: Meelik, seelik, kipe käis. X: Kilde, kalde, vabarna valde, X: Ille tille, tipe poiss. X: O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum, | O abies, o abies, X: Du kannst mir sehr gefallen! | Tu mihi valde places: X: Ne sit mirum, socii, quodita me geram. X: Credite, placere mi valde nostram terram. ... tubam ductilem, plumbariique ferrum (quo plumbare & ferruminare solent) valde ignitum intus immisisse, atque ita intestina vitalesq; X: The Horton coat-of-arms in England is as follows: X: ... The motto, "Quod vult, valde vult:" What he X: wills he wills cordially and without stint. X: Eigi tú tćr kenslur somu, Laß auch dir die Brust bewegen, X: vćna, gev mćr ljóđ, Liebchen, höre mich! X: piprandi viđ drál eg komi, Bebend harr ich dir entgegen, X: ger meg sćlan, fljóđ. Komm, beglücke mich! X: Bunulćkur blár og tćr! Cloudy river, brisk and bright, X: bakkafögur á í hvammi! brawling down from mountain passes, X: sólarylur, blíđur blćr, currents crinkling in the light! X: bunulćkur fagurtćr! Cloudy river, green and bright! http://ftp.std.com/obi/Anglo-Saxon/aspr/a35.html Ardor frigesscit, nitor squalescit, amor abolescit, lux obtenebrescit. Hat acolađ, hwit asolađ, leof alađaţ, leoht ađystrađ. Senescunt omnia que eterna non sunt. ćghwćt forealdađ ţćs ţe ece ne byđ. Querying the ORB search engine for "te multo valde porta" in phonetic search mode: Querying for "(te NEAR porta*) AND multo* P. Vieira: Beatus venter qui te portavit Aeneid: nam te iam septima portat Romans: quod si gloriaris non tu radicem portas sed radix te St. Francis: ...de te, Altissimo, porta significatione. ... per sor aqua, laquale e multo utile et humile Querying for "valde AND porta*" returned many Latin texts, including many pages from the Bible, and also this one: http://www.emmanuel-info.com/fr/commemma/priere/textes/t_marie.htm "Textes de pričre mariales" (Texts for praying to Mary) Ave, Regina coelorum, ave, Domina angelorum, salve, radix, salve, porta, ex qua mundo lux est orta. Gaude, Virgo gloriosa, super omnes speciosa, vale, o valde decora, et pro nobis Christum exora. Regina coeli, lćtare, alleluia, quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia, ressurrexit sicut dixit, alleluia, ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia. Hmm.. perhaps the "x"es in are abbreviations of "xit"? Querying "caeter*" http://britac3.britac.ac.uk/pubs/dialogus/w1d2g.html William of Ockham, Dialogus, pars 1, lib. 2 CAP. X. Nam Hieronymus scribens praedicta verba super epist. ad Galat. inter schisma et haeresim hoc interesse arbitratur quod haeresis perversum dogma habet schisma post principalem dissensionem ab ecclesia pariter separat et parum post caeterum nullum est schisma nisi sibi aliquam haeresim confingat ut recte ab ecclesia recessisse videatur. http://www.svkst.hr/izlozba3.htm KNJIGE TISKANE U XVI. STOLJECU" - Katalog izlozbe PINDARUS Pindari Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia : caeterorum octo Lyricorum carmina... / Henricus Stephanus (recognitione quorundam interpretationis locorum, & accessione lyricorum carminum locupletata). - 2. editio grecolatina. - [s.l.] : Huldrichus Fuggerus typographus, 1566. - 576 str. : inicijali ; 12 x 6 cm http://orb.rhodes.edu/ORB_done/Dudo/22L-marriage http://orb.rhodes.edu/ORB_done/Dudo/30L-baptism Dudo of St. Quentin's Gesta Normannorum Viking Normandy cum caeteris episcopis illius terrae. regeneratum Caeteraeque gentes in affinitate regni sui commorantes Querying "taeter*": http://oskoreia.studby.uio.no/~steinar/latine/bofh.html PRÔCŰRÂTOR ODIÔSUS EX ÎNFERNÎS (Bastard Operator from Hell 8-) Auctôre SIMÔNE PAVLÔ TRAVAGLI In Latinum Convertit Saxo Medisivanis / Steinar Midtskogen Osloae scîbebam Septembris 6. annô MCMXCVII. tâlis taeter sum! http://patriot.net/~lillard/cp/cic.phil12.html M. Tulli Ciceronis Philippicae In M. Antonium Oratio Philippica Duodecima Cuius acerbitas morum inmanitasque naturae ne vino quidem permixta temperari solet, hic ira dementiaque inflammatus adhibito fratre Lucio, taeterrima belua, numquam profecto a me sacrilegas manus atque impias abstinebit. (And in many other places) http://phil.flet.mita.keio.ac.jp/person/nakagawa/texts/august/cd/cd06.html Agustin De Civitate Dei LIBER VI Pauorem atque Pallorem taeterrimos ... Query for "taer" http://www.cbs.dk/~johan.hansen/Faroese.htm Faroese Poetry Eigi tú tćr kenslur somu, Laß auch dir die Brust bewegen, vćna, gev mćr ljóđ, Liebchen, höre mich! piprandi viđ drál eg komi, Bebend harr ich dir entgegen, ger meg sćlan, fljóđ. Komm, beglücke mich! http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/Jonas/Dalvisa/Dalvisa.html 24. Valley Song (Dalvísa) Cloudy river, brisk and bright, Bunulćkur blár og tćr! brawling down from mountain passes, bakkafögur á í hvammi! currents crinkling in the light! sólarylur, blíđur blćr, Cloudy river, green and bright! bunulćkur fagurtćr! http://www.sleipnir.fo/heimkapp/8sorv/page3.html Sřrvágs sřga Tćr elstu fornleivdirnar av bygdum řki eru funnar viđ Hanusará, har tann gamla fimleikarhřllin er. ... tćr fingu so hvřr sín triđing av allari jřrđini eftir fađir sín. Nřvn teirra vóru: Notra, Sutra og Ytra, og http://www.hf.ntnu.no/engelsk/staff/johannesson/wif.htm 3ho gillteţţ skët. 7 3iff ţüt wast. She sins easily; and if you know it 7 te niss nohht tćr offe; And do nothing about it, Ţa narrt tu nohht all sinnelćs. Then you are not completely free from sin Off -- ţatt 3ho liţ i sinne. Because she continues in sin. Query for "alađa" http://ftp.std.com/obi/Anglo-Saxon/aspr/a35.html Latin-English Proverbs Verse Indeterminate Saxon Ardor frigesscit, nitor squalescit, amor abolescit, lux obtenebrescit. Hat acolađ, hwit asolađ, leof alađaţ, leoht ađystrađ. 5 Senescunt omnia que eterna non sunt. ćghwćt forealdađ ţćs ţe ece ne byđ. Query for "olada*" http://www.africa-confidential.com/map/nigeria.htm Africa Confidential - Nigeria 5. GOC 82nd Division (Enugu) - Maj. Gen. Oladapo Popoola http://pender.ee.upenn.edu/~hunt/7Poorest.html The 2nd Annual Summit of Witnesses from Seven of the World's Poorest Peoples Oluwasseun Oladapo Ogunseitan* Director, African Center for Science... http://www.win.tue.nl/math/dw/personalpages/remkor/athletics/track1996/bupa96.html BUPA Challenge - Gateshead, Great Britain 400 metres 4. Georgina Oladapo (Britain) http://www.tftj.com/teen/local98.html Miss Distric of Columbia Teen Kehinde Oladapo, 18 http://www.cybercomm.no/radio1/nyheter/891870471.html Nyheter Flere andelseiere ved Oladammen borettslag har sett seg lei pĺ at mentalt tilbakestĺende beboere lager trřbbel for naboene. http://www.stud.unit.no/~sab/fjording/fjoapr96.html BYGDEBLAD FOR NORDFJORD Det var fullt hus og stormande jubel dĺ Oldedalen Ungdomslag hadde premiere pĺ klassikaren "Kallane i Oladalen" pĺ grendahuset laurdag kveld. http://www.dagbladet.no/kommentarer/960719-kom-1.html Nytt liv for Bustenskjold For en hel generasjon ble Oladalen, der Bustenskjold opererer, et norsk mytelandskap. http://www.agfc.state.ar.us/fishing/records.html Arkansas Sportfishing Records Oladale Lake http://www.gln.net/villskudd/guest.html DETTE ER VILLSKUDD'S GAMLE GJESTEBOK: Bosted: Oladalen http://www.iu-link.no/privat/vegard/guestbok/guestbook.html Guestbook Morten Nilsen Namsos/Oladalen, Norge - http://www.scolor.com/iie/history.htm IIE - Historical Background The vision to establish the International Institute of Evangelism came to the Revd. Dr. S.T. Ola. Akande (Samuel Titilola Oladale Akande) in Plainview, Texas, on November 20, 1995. http://www.debrecen.com/ettermek/ Éttermeink Debrecenben (Hungarian) Oladalaink megtekintéséhez a 800*600-as felbontást és 16bit színmélységet ajáljuk http://server.trefort-bp.sulinet.hu/p4.htm Üdvözlünk a Trefort Ágoston Kéttannyelvű... (Hungarian) Mint az a menüsorból kiderül, a fő oladalak az iskola különböző alapítványairól, magáról az iskoláról, ... http://members.xoom.com/lipigab/html/lap2.htm Mix lap: információk, linkek, letöltések, stb... (Hungarian) Egy kis segítséget szeretnék adni azzal, hogy felajánlok egy-pár hangot amit a következő oladalon le is tölthettek... http://contedu.jpte.hu/~fapapucs/anyagok/jatekok/shivers.htm Shivers - Relax! Magazin (hungarian) Itt át kell verekedni magunkat egy labirintuson, ehhez a legcélszerűbb, ha mindig a bal oladali falat követjük, így nem tévedünk el. http://www.ricerche-filosofiche.org/limba/tore.htm http://www.ricerche-filosofiche.org/indice.htm Poesia - Salvatore Pintore - AMMENTU DE UNA NOTTE (Sardinian) Cuntentos che pitzinnos in s'arzola de s'edŕde benin'a ballare cun sas dies `oladas chi non app'a ismentigare. http://www.fantasy.ru/perumov/guest_book-091197.html (Russian bulletin board) îÁĐÉÓÁĚ OLADAN RUSSIA, NOVGOROD - Wednesday, June 18, 1997 at 17:40:33 http://zdo.wssk.am.wroc.pl/guest/book.htm Regional Specialistic Hospital in Wroclaw - Guestbook (Ksiega Gosci) Niezla strona.dobrze sie bawilem podczas oladania.Gratulacje. Zygmunt Krol Glogow, Polska - Wed, 18 Nov 1997 14:30:56 +0100 Query for "ualde" Query for lamiarum http://www.gach.com/Gach/c0162-01.htm Catalog 162: Psychiatry, Mostly Antiquarian A-C 47. Bodin, Jean (1530-1596). De Magorum daemonomania, seu detestando lamiarum ac magorum cum satana commercio, libri iv. Accessit eiusdem opinionum Ioan. Vieri confutatio... Francofurti: Officina Typographica Nicolai Bassaei, 1590. 8vo. [First published 1580 in French]. 798pp. Later marbled boards. A very good copy. Latin edition first published 1581. Inquire / Order $500.00 A key book in the history of witchcraft -- and one of the most pernicious books ever written by an intelligent person. Written to help judges counter witchcraft, Bodin's DEMONOMANIA was based on his personal experience judging witches and on his erudition. Bodin gives one of the first legal definitions of a witch and in the third part tells how to torture, interrogate, condemn, and execute witches. See Robbins 1959, from which my account is taken. The query "valde AND nim" returned these non-Swedish pages: http://spirit.lib.uconn.edu/Medieval/aw4.htm "Ancrene Wisse": Part Four: "Temptations" ...uttre ant inre, ant ba beođ feole-valde. Uttre fondunge is hwer... http://logos.svenska.gu.se/ktext/flores.html "Flores och Blanzeflor" Vtan nřdh min fadher salde Blanzflor medh sino valde; iak faar mik aldre andra quinno www.levity.com/alchemy/britlib1.html Alchemical manuscripts in the British Library [Timeout] For "valde AND mich" I got: http://gutenberg.aol.de/gryphius/stuardus/stuar62b.htm Andreas Gryphius: "Ermordete Majestät / oder Carolus Stuardus, König von Gros Britanien" (Trauer-Spil.) ... tubam ductilem, plumbariique ferrum (quo plumbare & ferruminare solent) valde ignitum intus immisisse, atque ita intestina vitalesq; (Did I read "pipes of iron and lead"? A fuller quote is at the bottom. Another of Gryphus works is titled "Horribilicribrifax Teutsch"... 8-) http://gutenberg.aol.de/gryphius/papinian/papini61.htm Andreae Gryphii: Kurtze Anmerckungen über seinen "Papinianum" ... verglichen werden. Ego, diser Meynung ist Faber, non valde aberraturum credo, si quis... www.levity.com/alchemy/almss28.html Database of alchemical manuscripts - Swiss Libraries [Timeout] www.levity.com/alchemy/acetone.html Dr. Ch. A. Becker: Das Aceton, der geheime Weingeist der Adepten [Timeout] http://ingeb.org/Lieder/michergr.html (A site about folk songs) "Mich ergreift, ich weiß nicht wie" 2. Ne sit mirum, socii, quodita me geram. Credite, placere mi valde nostram terram. Quare hancce fidem do nulli non sinceram, Ut me nunquam alio ex loco feram. http://ingeb.org/Lieder/OTannenb.html "O Tannenbaum | O abies" O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum, | O abies, o abies, | O abies, o abies, Du kannst mir sehr gefallen! | Tu mihi valde places: | Quantopere me iuvas! http://www.techfak.uni-kiel.de/dekanat/promo.html Promotionsordnung ... der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Sehr gute wissenschaftliche Leistung (opus valde laudabile) http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Michael.Walter/teufel.htm Michael Walter: Der Teufel und die Kunstmusik Zur Musik der Karolingerzeit .... Gushee, 133 (im Anschluß an die eben zitierte Stelle): >>In civitate quae Autisioderensis vocitatur ferunt fuisse valde religiosum presbyterum, qui inter ... http://sps.k12.mo.us/khs/gmcling/medpoet.htm A Brief Collection of Middle High German Poetry dar űz nam sî daz röckel alsô balde daz was gelegen in maneger kleinen valde ir gürtel was ein rieme smal in des hant von riuwental warf diu stolze maget ir gickelvęhen bal http://www-lab04.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~komatsu/joyce/ulys3.html James Joyce: "Ulysses" Et vidit Deus. Et erant valde bona. Hlo! Bonjour. http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/guide/Ferguson/fergms51-100.html Ferguson Manuscripts 51 - 100 MS. 57. ... Extracts in French on alchemy. ... References to works by Ripley on f16v "Viaticum Georgii RiplĆii", and f18v "Opus valde bonum ex PiplĆii factum". http://www.cpu.lu/gka/cludem/jbstadt.htm Die Städte- und Handelspolitik Johanns des Blinden ... ... der Chronist Johann von Viktring, daß er /terram suam quibuslibet transeuntibus pacatam et valde securam conservabat/. http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/books/cutler/atchison/atchison-co-p18.html William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas The Horton coat-of-arms in England is as follows: ... The motto, "Quod vult, valde vult:" What he wills he wills cordially and without stint. http://www.gnomon.ku-eichstaett.de/LAG/kanzlei.html Prof. Dr. Jürgen Malitz: Die Kanzlei Caesars - Herrschafts... Cic. Att. 13,52,2: "Praeterea tribus tricliniis accepti hoi peri auton valde copiose. Libertis minus lautis servisque nihil defuit. nam lautiores eleganter accepi." Looking for "valde AND porta* AND gas" gave many pages in Swedish and also, surprisingly http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/2948/primlib2.html PRIMO LIBRO DE INTERLINGUA (G. Peano's invented language) "Per meo barba, dice alio, id es bono, et me lauda gentes valde sapiente sicut te. Me ipso nunquam inventa illo secreto, me confite id." I also tried looking up "uboe*" (the word after "valde", possibly). Again lots of Scandinavian pages. Should I be susprised? --stolfi PS. Here is the Gryphius quote. I wish I could read German and Latin. Or perhaps I wish not... Andreas Gryphius: Ermordete Majestät. oder Carolus Stuardus - König von Gros Britanien Trauer-Spil V. 201. Edward. Diser König ist ein recht Schauspill Menschlicher Nichtigkeit gewesen: verstossen von dem Reich / bekriget von seiner eigenen Gemahlin / und in dem Kercker von denen die ihn verhütet durch unerhörte Grausamkeit hingerichtet / in dem sie ihm ein glüend Eisen durch den Hindern gestossen. Polydor. in dem XVIII. Buch. Bzovius in dem II. Theil der Fortsetzung der Kirchen-Geschichte Baronii oder in dem XIV. Theil der Jahr Bücher theilet uns aus einem geschribenen Buch der Vaticanischen Buchkammer folgende schreckliche Wortte mit; Thomae Gorneio & Johanni Mantraversio custodiae illum Regina tradiderat, quod comes nimis remissus erga eum censeretur, itaq; illi valdč erant erga eum asperi & acerbi suaq; immani importunitate angores illi cumulabant, maximč cům noctu & clandestinis itineribus ŕ loco in locum magna cum illius molestia & fatigatione, eum, ne ubi esset sciretur, transportarent. Tradunt, eos non modo illos Edouardo cibos quibus praecipuč afficiebatur subduxisse & velato, ne agnosceretur capite, infestis secretisque diu noctuque itineribus exagitasse; Sed & veneno eum appetiisse; licet illud aut naturae firmitate, aut divina benignitate, sine gravi noxa discusserit, & ut angores illius augerent, coronam ex foeno contextam capiti per ludibrium in itinere imposuisse, & lingua patria exclamasse, Set fort o Kinge, id est, Perge o Rex. Et ut minus forte ab obviis cognosceretur, caesariem Capitis, barbamq; in itinere, ad monticulum quendam, quem talpae conficiunt sedenti rasisse. Cumq; tonsor frigidam, cum nulla alia suppeditaretur, aquam attulisset, dicerentq; debere Eum aequo animo pro temporum ratione id ferre; imo verň, inquit, velitis nolitis, calidâ aqua utemur; moxq; ingentes lachrymas, pro rei indignitate profudisse, quae per genas promanantes, barbam humectarent. Addunt Auctores, illos ipsos custodes tetris quibusdam odoribus hominem conficere conatos; quod cum non successisset, adhibitis quindecim robustis hominibus, in lecto eum pulvinaribus appressisse admovisseque natibus tubam ductilem, plumbariique ferrum (quo plumbare & ferruminare solent) valde ignitum intus immisisse, atque ita intestina vitalesq; spiritus simul excussisse. §. l0. des 1326. Jahres. (Zum Text)