Indeed, it is interesting whether lucƺ or lucˉƺ abbreviations existed in German, French or Spanish late medieval texts. It would be nice to find such precedents. I guess observation of traditions in abbreviations of a certain place and time is very important. For now I consider it a Latin abbreviated word.
JKP wrote: “The "z" shape is a very common Latin scribal abbreviation usually used at the ends of words. It stands for "-em" most of the time, but it can represent homonyms of "-em" as well (what it expands into depends partly on the language and partly on context).” It is true, but not quite.
I looked through a few Latin texts with retained abbreviations. These texts are mostly of the second part of 15 – beginning of 16 centuries.
Lucƺ – often really means lucem or lucum, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (using "4" at the end), in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., for example, eltˉƺ substitutes the word elementum.
Notably that the horizontal bar in most cases means the dropped letter “n”, above a last letter – often “m” (coˉcretus- concretus, postoˉs – positionis, nˉ - non, luceˉ - lucem, etc.)
But ƺ stands not only for –um, -em, or, even –m. It can be –et, -it or –ed. For example, sƺ stands for sed, scƺ – for scit, and so on.What is more, ƺ was used as –um and –et in the same text, but in different words. Usually it could be understood due to a sense of a text and construction of a sentence. Lucƺ is not an exclusion, it can mean You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as much as lucem or lucum. I’m not sure that the same shortened word can be used for two different forms of a real word in the same text. I think scribes usually chose an abbreviation for one of them. Probably, it depends on local traditions and own habits of scribes.
Logically, the horizontal bar in lucˉƺ may mean the dropped “n”, so it can be the verb lucent (3th person, present, plural). Unfortunately, I couldn’t find such an exact match in Latin texts, they must be studied more, of course.
We may assume that it can be some highly abbreviated word similarly to eltˉƺ but I think it is less possible as such abbreviations were used in texts where that word was mentioned in a full form or in a more understandable abbreviation (like You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.), at least, a few times. From the other side, the scribe of the marginalia could be unworried in this issue if he wrote it only for himself and knew its meaning.
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JKP wrote: “The "z" shape is a very common Latin scribal abbreviation usually used at the ends of words. It stands for "-em" most of the time, but it can represent homonyms of "-em" as well (what it expands into depends partly on the language and partly on context).” It is true, but not quite.
I looked through a few Latin texts with retained abbreviations. These texts are mostly of the second part of 15 – beginning of 16 centuries.
Lucƺ – often really means lucem or lucum, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (using "4" at the end), in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., for example, eltˉƺ substitutes the word elementum.
Notably that the horizontal bar in most cases means the dropped letter “n”, above a last letter – often “m” (coˉcretus- concretus, postoˉs – positionis, nˉ - non, luceˉ - lucem, etc.)
But ƺ stands not only for –um, -em, or, even –m. It can be –et, -it or –ed. For example, sƺ stands for sed, scƺ – for scit, and so on.What is more, ƺ was used as –um and –et in the same text, but in different words. Usually it could be understood due to a sense of a text and construction of a sentence. Lucƺ is not an exclusion, it can mean You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as much as lucem or lucum. I’m not sure that the same shortened word can be used for two different forms of a real word in the same text. I think scribes usually chose an abbreviation for one of them. Probably, it depends on local traditions and own habits of scribes.
Logically, the horizontal bar in lucˉƺ may mean the dropped “n”, so it can be the verb lucent (3th person, present, plural). Unfortunately, I couldn’t find such an exact match in Latin texts, they must be studied more, of course.
We may assume that it can be some highly abbreviated word similarly to eltˉƺ but I think it is less possible as such abbreviations were used in texts where that word was mentioned in a full form or in a more understandable abbreviation (like You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.), at least, a few times. From the other side, the scribe of the marginalia could be unworried in this issue if he wrote it only for himself and knew its meaning.
Links (Latin texts with abbreviations):
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