Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 161.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 19:36:23 +0100
From: "Norman D. Hinton" <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 14.0154 Latin abbreviation font
How very nice the Abbreviationes site is ! A kudos to Dr. Pluta: and
notice that it contains over 60,000 medieval abbreviations -- the notion
that there are only a few and they they will fit into one font, is
wrong. Take a look at Cappelli, Lexicon abbreviaturum. Dizionario di
abbreviature latine....del Medio-Evo...which contains over 140,000 such
abbreviation marks. (Mine is the 5th edition, and I bought it in the
1950s - I do not know how many editions there have been since then.)
The "1530 Garamond " font is very nice (I once designed a Garamond font,
years ago, so I know what it is supposed to look like), but it doesn't
even scrape the surface of medieval Latin abbreviations, which varied
with both time and place over more than a thousand years and all over
Europe...
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