Gothic Textura Prescissa: Abbreviations

There is only one abbreviation, the sign for et. It looks like a 7 with a stroke through it. We have seen the '7-shaped' and abbreviation in King Alfred's Preface to the Cura Pastoralis, that time without a cross-stroke. It is an ancient form of shorthand.


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