I am really grateful to everybody who helped with Domine non sum
dignus.It seems most obvious, that the phrase was used "as a kind of
punctuation mark for the self-concious awareness" as Dr. Zimmermann
suggests. It often occurs at the end of the letters and on the back
sides of the letters exchanged by the dominican monks and even seems
to be a kind of a pass-word among the circle of a certain group of
friends.
The same phrase is also written by an anonimous monk of the same Tallinn Dominican
monastery on the back cover of a printen Legenda Aurea (Nuernberg, Anton
Koberger 1482) amongst some Estonian words. These Estonian words are
almost the first known written record in this language (except two
words in the chronicle of Henricus de Lettis at the beginning of the
13-th c.). Normally the written vernacular in medieval Livonia was
Low Middle German.
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