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RE: 4o - Davidsch - 01-12-2016
Don't bother: I've found it now. It's actually an common abbrev. Thanks for the help.
RE: 4o - -JKP- - 02-12-2016
(01-12-2016, 05:38 PM)Davidsch Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Don't bother: I've found it now. It's actually an common abbrev. Thanks for the help.
I'm about 200 posts behind so I didn't see this request until after you had found it for yourself (yes, it's often used to indicate quarto in Latin texts, even before the pointy-4 came into regular use).
But I have another example, something that's not uncommon in 14th- and 15th-century texts. In this example...
![[Image: 4op.png]](http://voynichportal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/4op.png)
![[Image: 4op2.jpg]](http://voynichportal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/4op2.jpg)
it's easy to read it as a four, especially if it is followed by a letter that attaches to the top of the right-hand stroke (and makes it look more like an "o") but it's the letter "p". Sometimes the loop on the p is rounder and almost completely detached from the descender and looks very much like the VMS 4o.
I sometimes wonder if this shape served as inspiration for the French code and perhaps also for the VMS glyph-shape 4o. Note that in the French code, the 4o shape stands for "p".
RE: 4o - Wladimir D - 11-10-2019
Tell me 40 in this example is this number?
“Santo 40 primus?”
In the abbreviation “primus,” the macron is usually written over “p”.
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RE: 4o - Helmut Winkler - 11-10-2019
It rather looks like the quaestio-abbr., it is a longstanding misunderstanding that the B. 408 qo is quarto, quarto would rather lok like xo, the abbr. for primus would be p with an overwritten s.
RE: 4o - MarcoP - 11-10-2019
I think it could be "santo 40 ti", with "ti" maybe being a correction: the name, in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. by Giacomo Gastaldi, is Santi Quaranta (40 saints). The site of Troy is a little to the right: qua fu troia grande (here was the great Troy).
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