Re: VMs: Tironian notes

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:36 27/04/2003 -0500, GC wrote:
> Nick, this description of the "4" symbol in Tironian notes
> certainly matches the "4" in the VMS, although I've always seen
> the symbol written smaller.

Can anyone point to any online scans of Tironian "4", "8", and "9", 
especially used in the period 1400-1470 (ie, before Arabic numerals really 
started to take off)?

Certainly by Trithemius' time, Tironian notae seemed to have largely been 
forgotten (the Armenian psalter story, etc) - I suspect that the few notae 
still in (fossilised) use in the 15th century may have been rather less 
varied (both in form and meaning) than as described in Capelli. 


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