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f25v - Corn Plant (Dracaena fragrans) ?

f25v - Corn Plant (Dracaena fragrans) ?
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01-05-2025, 02:57 PM
Another possibility is that the unique symbol in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. depicts a medieval version of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (⁊).

   
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01-05-2025, 09:54 PM
Here is an example from a 15c Arabic cipher text. I'm going to post the full thing soon, but thought maybe interesting. 

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16-05-2025, 03:28 PM
Another possibility is that this could be the letter 'q', see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

   
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18-05-2025, 04:05 AM (This post was last modified: 18-05-2025, 04:29 AM by Dobri.)
In Lexicon Abbreviaturarum by Adriano Cappelli (1901), page 435, a similar symbol stands for VI (or 6), VIII century.
What if the scribe was copying and encoding an earlier text but did not know how to interpret the symbol and depicted it as it looked like?

   
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