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The Anglo Saxon alphabetical characters differ only
Emma Cope How to Read old Documents R Z113 C75 from the Roman in the letter W written p: there
are also 2 additional double letters ' "th", represented
by the following letter p, and 'dh' y, these last
being in frequent use in the construction of words.
About the time when printing was brought over +
practiced in England the Saxon P disappeared.

The system of contraction started with the Jews, who
were accustomed to omit the vowels in the sacred
name fo Jahwe or Jehovah. It was transferred by
Hallenizing Jews to Greek scribes through Greek
translations of Hebrew Scriptures. From the
Greeks it passed to Rome. One of the proofs of
Jewish origin is that the usage, even in Latin, was
at first absolutely confined to just 5 Sacred
Names: Deus (ds), Jesus (i[?]s), Christus
(xps), Spiritus (sps) + Dominus (d[?]s).

A.W. Pollard NC 960 P77 P.90 -At Milan only 2 illustrated books are known to have been
issued before 1490, both of which appeared in 1479. The
rarest of these is the Summa di Pacifica Consciuntia of
Fra Pacifico di Novara printed by Philippus of
Lavagnia, + illustrated with 3 copper plates, one of
which represents the virtues of the Madonna.

The 1st 5 books of the Old Testament (Genesis, Exodus,
Leviticus, Noumbers + Duteronomy) are known
collectively as the Pentateuch or Five Books of Moses
(11-6th Centuries B.C.)

The dismissal at the end of the Mass, namely, the
'Ite missa est' (sometimes replaced by 'BenedicamusDomino')