In medieval manuscripts (XV century and earlier), are there any examples where "milch" (= German "milk") would be consistently spelled as "mich" (the letter "L" omitted)?
Occurrences of composite words such as "geismilch", "mandelmilch" etc. omitting the letter "L" in "-milch" are of particular interest.
Thanks in advance!
It should be a simple misspelling, what else? I am curious about the particular interest you mentioned... Greetings from Vienna
Hi Andreas Kuelzer ,
The question relates to the German marginalia in folio 116v of the famous "Voynich Manuscript", Beinecke MS408.
In short, part of it reads "so nim gasmich". The "so nim" being quite a common template of medieval German recipes, some researchers argue that "gasmich" stands for "geismilch". But while "gas" maybe so-so for "Ziege", nobody yet demonstrated occurrences of "mich" for "milch" apart from simple typos.
Here is the folio in question: https://www.jasondavies.com/voynich/#f116v/0.5/0.5/2.23
In case of your further interest, here is the (tremendous in size and rather unsystematic) thread on f116v in the Voynich forum: https://voynich.ninja/thread-437.html It's curious what depth of discussion a few lines of text can reveal!
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