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punctus flexus ( a mark of punctuation like a "7" with
a dot beneath) which was characteristic of Cistercian use.

Britain
the English three-stroke superscript sign
which most commonly represents the er or the re sound
(z) (z) thrailing headed a (2)

(8) the reverse curve + shading of the final
stroke of the minuscule d - distinctively English
chancery, found nowhere else in Europe.

t (ter) the er flourish so characteristically English
v - the English forked r going below the line.

the influence of the chancery hand upon the gothic will
become more obvious as we move into the 14th C.
the English superscript conterclockwise sign for terminal r or er (3) 1336
- the flourishes + heavy finishing strokes of the d + the r, er, re sign
and the e coming off a forked r - unmistakably English.

Spain
See #74 the peculiar Spanish Z [z]
oms, omium, oma for omnes, omnium, omoria
n and no for non, all of which will be recognized
as characteristic Visigothic script for some time before
this text (1188). omia-omnia
bns-benedictus an-autem z for usiam
(eccia) ecca - ecclesia mm-meum pplos-populos
Spanish gothic - heavy + stubby with a slight tendency to
roundness

the sign for esse P or F was common in philosophical
circles in Europe in the 14th C.
the influence of the Caroligian minuscule - as in all
humanistic scripts
the long i after a minimed letter (i, m, n, w)
oia for omne

with - long horizontal stroke
1396 - late for good gothic
the d looped at the top + pointed at the lower left - a late
development seldom found before the 15th C.

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