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At 10:10 PM 4/8/98 -0700, Clinton Atchley wrote: >I recently ran across two quotes on an end leaf of a manuscript, and I'm >hoping someone out there in never-never land can help me identify them. >In the following transcription, what I'm calling *quam* is actually a "q" >with a diagonal line from right to left through the descender which then >turns back horizontally through the descender once again, something like a >2; it also has a superscript cc just to the right of the "q". I couldn't >find this in either Capelli or Bischoff. > The superscript cc is almost certainly a letter "a." Check the forms given at the beginning of the "a" section in Capelli, and you will probably find it. Which means that the abbreviation you are expanding is probably "quam." Beyond this little paleographical tidbit, alas, I cannot help you. Stephen A. Allen The Medieval Institute University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556-5692 [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%