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Abbreviation of Jesus Christ #17

Open scottkleinman opened 10 years ago

scottkleinman commented 10 years ago

In line 75 of the Life of Christ, there is an instance of "Ihu" with a bar between "h" and "u". The online Book of Margery Kempe uses "Ih̅u" to represent something similar to this: i.e. "h" with a macron. However, in the Laud instance, the macron seems to me to be exactly in between the "h" and the "u" (it is not a crossed "h"). Perhaps someone else should take a look and comment on my reading.

In the same line, the scribe's abbreviation of "Christ" has what appears to be a minim over the "c", for which I've used "". Again, someone should confirm this reading, and, if it is confirmed, we need to think about the use of this entity to represent the abbreviation mark since it is a Private Use character.

Evertype commented 7 years ago

In my forthcoming edition of the Cornish Passion Poem, which has a palaeographic reading, I find both ih̅u(s) and ihu̅. The mark is long and often goes over both the i and the u (through the h), but sometimes is just over the u. I'm not normalizing, but I'm also not putting the mark over more than one letter (so either through the h or over the u). The MS does have an ornamental line over gh and th, though, and for those I put the mark over both g̅h̅ amd t̅h̅. The mark itself is U+0305 COMBINING OVERLINE. It is not the combining macron.

In the abbreviation for Christ, the minim is U+0365 COMBINING LATIN LETTER SMALL I, which is an abbreviation for "ir" or "ri" in Cornish, We have vͥtu "virtu", cͥſt "crist", gͥſt "grist" (mutated form)