Tionscadal na Nod

ut (v and 9-like symbol)

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Source: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 (1225) = Leabhar Uí Mhaine (The Book of Uí Maine) [1394], f. 122vbFile:

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Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 [s. xv–xviⁱⁿ], f. 12vbFile:

Letters displayed:

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Base form in image, without marks, as it may appear to the untrained eye.

Represents in Latin:

ut

In the scribe’s mind or in normalised spelling.

Appearance

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Combination

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Superscript symbol

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apostrophe (superscript)

Represents: □s, □()s (Irish)□us, □()s, □() (Latin)

At the baseline:

Alphabetic letters:

u (v-shaped)

Represents: u (Irish)u, v (Latin)

Notational device: Allograph Allograph of: u (regular letter)

Meaning

Represents:

In Latin: ut

Context

Comments:

In early insular Latin writing, a more common form for ut is a u with a suspension stroke over it. Lindsay states that this form “survived in the Bobbio scriptorium till about the middle of the eighth century. But for the rest of our period [until c. 850] ‘ut’ is symbolised perhaps only by Welsh and Cornish scribes. They write it as u (usually in the v-form) with a comma or dot above which in time (after 850) finds its way into Irish and Anglosaxon script too [...]”.⁽¹⁾^{n. 1} W. M. Lindsay, Notae Latinae: an account of abbreviation in Latin mss. of the early minuscule period, c. 700-850 (1915): 320–321.