Re[4]: [tied] Occam's razor

At 3:12:01 PM on Friday, March 28, 2003, george knysh wrote:

> ******GK: I can only go by the evidence of extant
> manuscripts of his works (which may not be conclusive).
> The fact is that more of those of indubitably English
> provenance spell his name with an "H" than with an "O".
> Interestingly three of them expand the reference to "de
> civitate Hokam /Hocham, Hoccham/". Continental
> manuscripts, on the other hand, prefer "O" over "H" by a
> wide margin, though a couple of Munich ones (where he
> lived from 1330 to the end of his life) do have "H". In
> official (papal and imperial) documents, he's always
> "O".*******

Thanks for the information. I would not have guessed at
this distribution.

Brian