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Scribal abbreviation
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Scribal abbreviations, or sigla, are abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages, including Latin, Greek, Old English and Old Norse.
Malmesbury Abbey early 15th-century Latin Vulgate Bible manuscript of Book of Numbers 1:24–26 with many abbreviations, 1407. Lines 2 and 3 with expans
Malmesbury Abbey early 15th-century Latin Vulgate Bible manuscript of Book of Numbers 1:24–26 with many abbreviations, 1407. Lines 2 and 3 with expansions between [..]: g[u]lor[um] a vigi[n]ti a[n]nis & sup[ra] o[mn]es qui ad bella p[ro]cedere[n]t: ((verse 25)) q[ua]dragi[n].
Entries for Croydon and Cheam, Surrey, in Domesday Book (1086), as published using record type in 1783
Entries for Croydon and Cheam, Surrey, in Domesday Book (1086), as published using record type in 1783
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Domesday Book
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Domesday Book is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by the Lati
Scribal abbreviation
…notabilior, which later resulted in the bicamerality of the script (case distinction). Typographic replication Entries for Croydon and Cheam, Surrey, in Domesday Book (1086), as published using record type in 1783 Various typefaces have been designed to allow scribal abbreviations and other archaic glyphs to be…
Domesday Book: an engraving published in 1900. Great Domesday (the larger volume) and Little Domesday (the smaller volume), in their 1869 bindings, li
Domesday Book: an engraving published in 1900. Great Domesday (the larger volume) and Little Domesday (the smaller volume), in their 1869 bindings, lie on their older "Tudor" bindings.
Great Domesday in its "Tudor" binding: a wood-engraving of the 1860s
Great Domesday in its "Tudor" binding: a wood-engraving of the 1860s
The Domesday Chest, the German-style iron-bound chest of c. 1500 in which Domesday Book was kept in the 17th and 18th centuries
The Domesday Chest, the German-style iron-bound chest of c. 1500 in which Domesday Book was kept in the 17th and 18th centuries