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Is it a given that "par devers" means "around" in time
rather than "around" in space or "through the auspices
of"? Just a query as my old French is, well, old.
MG
"Vous
> nous avez mande que vous
> avez donne aux meiseaus par devers Saint Jaque, tout
> l'or que nous vous
> avons transmis." (=You have told us that you have
> given to the lepers around
I would have thought this meant lepers clustered
around the shrine at Compostela...
> St Jaque all gold that we had sent you.(???)
>
around St
> Jaque ) means. I came
> to think it could mean John the Baptiste
Really difficult to imagine someone's using this term
for JBap.
because
> this is a dating that comes
> up in the context of another faked document.
>
> If all this gives someone out there an idea, help is
> of course still very
> much appreciated. Thank you everybody for the
> suggestions I already got!!
>
> Have a nice day! Yours Silke
>
>
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