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Subject: Re: Magna Carta sealed (15-6-1215)
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On 6/15/2024 4:22 PM, Ross Clark wrote:
> And the linguistic angle is...
> "The original is written in medieval Latin, as was normal for official 
> documents at the time..."
> And this goes on to scribal abbreviations, which were also normal at the 
> time:
> 
> "...in Magna Carta _and_* was written as a dash with a small tail, _per_ 
> ('of') could appear as a letter <p> with a crossbar on the descender, 
> and _nostra_ ('our') was written <nra> with a horizontal line above."
> 
> *He should really have written: _et_ ('and').
> 
> (Something that came up quite recently in the excerpt from the Chronicle 
> about the Danes sacking Lindisfarne):
> 
> "A symbol that looked like the numeral 7 was very frequent in 
> Anglo-Saxon texts as a replacement for _and_: it derives from the symbol 
> used in classical Latin for _et_ ('and') by Cicero's scribe, Marcus 
> Tullius Tiro (and thus often called the 'Tironian _et_')."
> As Aidan knew.




Old Irish

Etymology= Abbreviation of Latin et reliqua (“and the rest”), with et 
being contracted via the Tironian note ⁊.


Phrase

⁊rl.


ocus -->  agus