medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
To add to what Matej has said, sometimes Google helps simply by responding to a search for the expression in question. E.g. "solidus grossorum", a Google search for which produces the results shown here:
http://tinyurl.com/cu9p4b
Or "solidi grossorum":
http://tinyurl.com/chnt64
Best,
John Dillon
On Wednesday, April 29, 2009, at 10:21 am, Laura Jacobus wrote:
> Thanks Matej and Tom. I'd already found this, but not the answer to my
> specific query. Still, it's amazing what you can find on the web!
> The sign I'm looking at, incidentally, is very similar to the S
> cancelled by a flourish, which is listed in Cappelli 's 'Dizionario di
> Abbreviature' p.336 as standing for 'solidi, sunt or sive'. Only
> 'solidi' might make sense in the context, which seems to refer to a
> deposit: 'i(n) pignori pro [solidi sign?] xxxx grossorum'
>
> all best
>
> Laura
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Matej Župančič
> To: 'Laura Jacobus'
> Sent: 29 April 2009 14:38
> Subject: FW: [M-R] paleographic query/venetian money
>
>
> Sometimes helps Google. Matej
>
> http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/memdb/about_mueller.html#foreignExchange
>
>
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> From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval
> religious culture [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Laura Jacobus
> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:28 PM
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> Subject: [M-R] paleographic query/venetian money
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>
>
> This is not strictly relevant to the list, but can anyone help me
> with a query about Venetian money. I'm trying to decipher a
> conventional sign in a document, and it could stand for 'soldi', but
> only if there was a unit of money called 'soldi di grossi'. I know
> there were soldi and grossi, but were there soldi di grossi?
>
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