19-07-2025, 05:24 PM
A bit more info: Trying to improve the data base, I searched Latin, 15th century, *not* illuminated, not musical, not fragments. That cuts the pool to c. 200. From these, just look at the ugly ones with lots of abbreviations. I would just pick a page full of text and take a look for "3" symbols and only looking at two or three pages per ms.
Out of the first 50 mss. listed, maybe ten or so examples were good. It seems the symbol "3' is fairly widely used, but very thinly spread. Often only one per page, unless a word is repeated.
Tracking the examples is tedious, and beyond demonstrating existence, is there something further?
Out of the first 50 mss. listed, maybe ten or so examples were good. It seems the symbol "3' is fairly widely used, but very thinly spread. Often only one per page, unless a word is repeated.
Tracking the examples is tedious, and beyond demonstrating existence, is there something further?