19-07-2020, 09:19 PM
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(19-07-2020, 06:23 PM)MichelleL11 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
...What scenario for decoding/understanding would necessitate modifying the ends of lines when it is physically evident what the ends of lines are from the script?
Paragraph end characters (m, g) which were sometimes drawn like the "-tis/-tes" or "-cis/ces" abbreviation or a "-rum" symbol, were moderately common in medieval texts and were not only at the ends of paragraphs, but sometimes at the ends of sections within a paragraph. It was a way of expressing section ends, but sometimes also etcetera, osv., "and so on" rather than the more traditional etcetera symbol.
Here are some examples:


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