02-01-2020, 05:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-01-2020, 05:56 PM by -JKP-.
Edit Reason: added another example
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I keep forgetting to post this. I come across it frequently in medieval manuscripts, numerous abbreviations for the words presbyter, presbyteren (the presbyter), presbiter, presbitere, etc., in Latin and Germanic languages.
If whoever wrote the text on 116v left out the apostrophes, then perhaps this is an abbreviation. It was extremely common for the "pres" part to be abbreviated down to a simple p with a stroke above it or through the descender (a macron). If the VMS word were written p'b'ren, this could be one interpretation:
This is a 19th-century transcript of a 9th-century manuscript that illustrates how the word presbiter was associated with crosses at one point in time:
If whoever wrote the text on 116v left out the apostrophes, then perhaps this is an abbreviation. It was extremely common for the "pres" part to be abbreviated down to a simple p with a stroke above it or through the descender (a macron). If the VMS word were written p'b'ren, this could be one interpretation:
This is a 19th-century transcript of a 9th-century manuscript that illustrates how the word presbiter was associated with crosses at one point in time:
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