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Abbreviation · Raised letters

What does qʳ · qr mean?

quarter · quarters

quarter: q and r with the middle left out (q[uarte]r). A measure of grain or of cloth, or a quarter of a year. Not the same as q[uar]t = quart

Now and thenUnit 9

You’ll find it in accounts, inventories and deeds.

In practice lines

Examples of this one are on their way

Create a free Leo accountTaught in unit 9. Standard members get the whole course.

More raised letters

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).