A rendering of the Latin phrase mimi numinum niuium minimi munium nimium uini muniminum imminui uiui minimum uolunt in Gothic handwriting. In palaeography, a minim is a short, vertical stroke used in handwriting. The word is derived from …

Feb 2, 2021 · While admittedly bizarre, this medieval Latin sentence is nevertheless perfectly comprehensible. It has been translated as: The very short mimes of the gods of snow do not at all wish that during their lifetime the very great burden of …

Jun 8, 2023 · Three minims, ııı, could be read as m, or ui, or iu, or ni, or in. What a mess! Can you decipher the word to the left? Usually letters like b, p, l, s break up strings of minims, but not …

Feb 15, 2021 · While admittedly bizarre, this medieval Latin sentence is nevertheless perfectly comprehensible. It has been translated as: The very short mimes of the gods of snow do not at all wish that during their lifetime the very great burden of (distributing) the wine of the walls to be lightened. HistoryToday.com.

A fourteenth century example of the difficulty minims produced is, mimi numinum niuium minimi munium nimium uini muniminum imminui uiui minimum uolunt ("the smallest mimes of the gods of snow do not wish at all in their life that the great duty of the defences of the wine be diminished").

Feb 16, 2021 · Minims are letters that are made up of short, vertical pen strokes, such as 'm', 'i', 'n' and 'u'. In Gothic script, there is often little distinction between letters composed of minims.

In palaeography, a minim is a short, vertical stroke used in handwriting. The word is derived from the Latin minimum, meaning " least " or " smallest ". A minim is the basic stroke for the letters i, m, n, and u in uncial script and later scripts deriving from it.

Jul 5, 2016 · To show that Gothic script could be fatiguing to read, medieval scribes invented this joke sentence: mimi numinum niuium minimi munium nimium uini muniminum imminui uiui minimum uolunt. The snow gods’ smallest mimes do not wish in any way in their lives for the great duty of the defenses of wine to be diminished.

En paleografía, un mínimo es un trazo vertical corto que se utiliza en la escritura a mano. La palabra se deriva del latín mínimo, que significa menor o más pequeño. Un mínimo es el trazo básico de las letras i, m, n y u en escritura uncial y en …

Dec 26, 2021 · TIL about minims (short, vertical strokes in handwriting) and how the difficulty of them being read together ("in mimi numinum niuium minimi munium nimium uini muniminum imminui uiui minimum uolunt") gave birth to the dotted i and to letters j and v. Was I supposed to have been dotting my Vs?