hmm, yes, less likely in the fuller context...

M/E

> Johnna Holloway <johnnae@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> I need to spend sometime checking out other numbers in the manuscript
> and doing some comparison work on the handwriting.
> In any case the phrasing that Napier uses as in
> "/Ung fubtilite/ Braun in egre douce Blanche ferre porcell *...* de 
> metes in paft /Ung/ in /fubtilite/ *..."
> *seems just wrong.
> 
> Johnnae*
> *
> Margaret Rendell wrote:
> >> Johnna wrote:
> >>
> >> In the courses she ends a number with the words "Ung fubtilite".
> >> This looks like viiy or viig in the manuscript to me. I am wondering 
> if 
> >> this isn't a number
> >> or shorthand for something else. I'll have to look into this.
> >>
> >>     
> > viij or viiij subtilite (8 or 9 sotelties) would make sense to me...
> >
> >
> > Margaret/Emma
> >   
>