[Sca-cooks] Peppers

[Martin G. Diehl]

[attributions restored]

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:
> 
> > Chris Stanifer <jugglethis at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > > Johnna Holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu> wrote: 
> > > 
> > > As to what the English thought about peppers (white, 
> > > black, and long) one can read the 1588 work-- 
> > > A short discourse of the three kindes of peppers in 
> > > common vse and certaine special medicines made of 
> > > the same, tending to the preseruation of health.
> >
> > Why substitute 'v' for 'u'???

Why?  "The scribe made me do it."  

> It's the nature of Cataloging. Rather than get involved in 
> trying to *interpret* the data, they try to _transcribe_ 
> exactly as written. If the printer used a v for a u, 
> that's how they will transcribe it. No matter if they are 
> perfectly sure that it's meant to be a u instead. 

This is traditional scribe behavior.  

AFIK, scribes in the middle ages routinely copied written 
works letter for letter even though they were written in 
a language they didn't read.  

For that matter, this also applies to cryptology in period.  
Expert cryptologists deciphered coded messages despite not 
being able to read the decoded text.  

Kahn; "Codebreakers"  

If you want, I'll look it up and get back to you with the 
details later.  Just ask.  

> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, 
> Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net

Vincenzo

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Martin G. Diehl

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