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Measurement and monetary signs according to Glareanus (1551)

GLAREANUS, H. (d. i. Heinrich Loriti): Liber de asse, & partibus eius. Cum rerum ac vocum Indice locupletißimo. Basel, Michael Isengrin, 1551
The images presented here for study are taken from the aforementioned volume. It seems to show a range of hitherto hardly known characters for Roman measurement and currency units and their counterparts in the author’s time. The tables shown are obviously woodcuts (?). Some of the characters are also featured in the running text of the treatise. 
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The images on this page are presented with kind permission by Gerhard Gruber Antiquarian Bookseller of Heilbronn (+49-7131-45245, www.antiquariat-gruber.de). Herr Gruber offers an original copy of that rare 1551 edition.
Special thanks to: Helmut Stabe, Halle/S. 
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I don't know that I've seen every one of them, but most if not all are pretty standard weight signs, outlined in Bede, De Temporum Ratione, cap. iv, de ratione unciarum. Of course as weight signs they are also commonly used as money signs. See also Isidore, Etymologies, XVI. xxv (the signs are not there in Lindsay's edition, but I bet they are in
most of the MSS). Aren't these in Unicode? They ought to be.
Peter Baker, 6 February 2008

 

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