Abbreviation · Money

What does pd · pᵈ mean?

pound · pounds

pound: p and d with the middle left out (p[oun]d). The same letters as pᵈ = paid, so let the line decide: a sum before it is pounds, a receipt or a date is paid. The plural is poundꝭ

CommonUnit 9

You’ll find it in accounts, inventories, wills and letters.

In practice lines

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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).