Note 77 — NUMERICAL FIGURES.
Reading edition
A peculiar arrangement of letters was in use by the German and Flemish printers of the 16th century. Thus cIɔ denoted 1000, and Iɔ, 500. The date 1619 would therefore be thus printed:—cIɔ. Iɔcxx.
Reading edition
A peculiar arrangement of letters was in use by the German and Flemish printers of the 16th century. Thus cIɔ denoted 1000, and Iɔ, 500. The date 1619 would therefore be thus printed:—cIɔ. Iɔcxx.