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[Anton]

The horizontal line is enigmatic though. In German manuscripts, those are used with vowels as diacritics.

You can see the use of such a diacritic abbrev. mark (the horizontal line) to show the reader
 it concerns an abbrev. where (other and) many necc. letters have been lftt

(leftt=left out)

Yes, that's already been discussed above. The question is: was that common in German language manuscripts? Are there any characteristic examples?

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German documents were written with almost as many scribal abbreviations as Latin. Not quite as many, but most were adopted by one scribe or another.

The ones that were particularly prevalent in German documents were the Latin abbreviations for con-/cum- -rum/-orem -um/-us/-os re/er/ir con, per and pro. These, by the way, happen to match the characters in the VMS that were used for those abbreviations, as if the person who created the text wanted it to superficially look like they were Latin abbreviations.

What I mean are not "German documents", but documents in German language. Was there a similar abbreviation practice in place for the German language as it was there for Latin?