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Italy (Q) -used alone or internally (qui) qa (quia) inqt(inquit)
qd(quid)
bs for bus Italian abbreviational
characteristies

the wavy line for r or ra ev, re, ri will assume more significacance
in Italian hands from this point (1188)
et sign - long upper horizontal stroke + absence
of a medial crossbar (7) is quite
Italian -the unical a, the horiz ascendes of the d.

the super script us sign - an elongated cresent
open toward the lower left is frequent in
Italian gothic instead of the more usual
form of a 9, as found in northern gothic(7)
wavy line for omitted r, er, re (over proximate vowel to represent omitted r)
x for double s

gothic tradition for the upper horizontal stroke
of r to continue into the next letter e.g. ra, re,
ri, ro.

vertical lines in the capitals, characteristic of Italian
rubrication --> T=T - 1204-becomes discinctive later in this Century + persists through the 15th C.
Italian spelling (michi)
tendency to square letter structure.
the horizontal ascender of the d (d)
the roundness of the characters in Italian gothic contributes
to the impression of width as opposed to that of height
in French gothic
reversed c for - bus superscript 9.
-tio instead of cio final y for i
italianisms - the round a (a), n for non, final y for i
- the wavy line for ra as gratis was quite general all over
Europe
long ascenders reflects the practice used in the writing
of legal documents.