(12-04-2019, 11:45 AM)bi3mw wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.To get an idea of the magnitude of the frequency of abbreviations, I have read You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
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While 46 different abbreviations are used on fol. 11r, there are 62 different abbreviations on fol. 144r. This results from the fact that the text on fol. 144r is 3.25 times longer in terms of the number of glyphs than the text on fol. 11r. In other words, 7.5% of the glyphs on fol. 11r are abbreviations, while there is a similar amount of abbreviations on fol. 144r (7%).
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Of course it can not be said if this result represents an average.
The early printed Nuremberg Chronicle fragment I posted above appears to be similar in this respect: 23/270=8.5% of the glyphs are abbreviations. I guess that a highly abbreviated Latin text should have >10% abbreviations, maybe as high as 20%?