Abbreviation · Signs

What does ꝯ mean?

con · com

a 9-shape on the line: con/com (ꝯtent = content)

Now and thenUnit 11

You’ll find it in registers, wills, inventories, deeds, letters, court records and accounts.

In practice lines

Examples of this one are on their way

Create a free Leo accountTaught in unit 11. Standard members get the whole course.

Listed in C. T. Martin, The Record Interpreter (1910).

More signs

Model letters: R. B. McKerrow, An Introduction to Bibliography (1927); Jean de Beauchesne & John Baildon, A Booke Containing Divers Sortes of Hands (1570 and 1581); Giovambattista Palatino, Libro nel qual s’insegna a scrivere (1550); and manuscripts in the Folger Shakespeare Library; all public domain. They stand in until Leo’s own model letters are drawn. Secretary letters typeset in Joscelyn by Peter S. Baker (SIL Open Font License).