Scribal abbreviationScribal abbreviations, or sigla (sing.: siglum), are abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages, including Latin, Greek, Old English and Old Norse. In modern (substantive and mechanical) sigla are the symbols used to indicate the source manuscript (e.g. variations in text between different such manuscripts).
Medieval LatinMedieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman CatholicWestern Europe during the Middle Ages. It was also the administrative language in the former Roman Provinces of Mauretania, Numidia and Africa Proconsularis under the Vandals, the Byzantines and the Romano-Berber Kingdoms, until it declined after the Arab Conquest.
BlackletterBlackletter (also black letter or sometimes black-letter; popularly known as Gothic) was originally a medieval book hand (Textualis or Textura) of the Gothic family of scripts, later adapted into typefaces and still used in modern calligraphy and typesetting. The book script was used throughout Western Europe from approximately the late 12th until the 17th century.
Movable typePrinting technology and system based on reconfigurable blocks of glyphs A case of cast metal type pieces and typeset matter in a composing stick Movable type (US English; moveable type in British English) is the system and technology of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document (usually individual alphanumeric characters or punctuation marks) usually on the medium of paper.
Section signThe section sign (§) is a typographical symbol for referencing individually numbered sections of a document; it is frequently used when citing sections of a legal code. It is also known as the section symbol, section mark, double-s, or silcrow. The section sign typically appears akin to a letter S stacked on top of another S. UseThe section sign is often used when referring to a specific section of a legal code.
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