| The abbreviation for spiritus, 'spirit': | |
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spiritus in line 1. |
| The ligature of Et is going to develop into an abbreviation, but for the time being it merely conjoins two letters: | |
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Example in line 1. Later this will develop into the ampersand, known to us as &. |
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In this manuscript it often begins a line, and is decorated lavishly: example in line 3. |
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It is also used in verbs to stand for the grammatical ending -et: in line 3 it ends the verb dixisset 'he had said'. |