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| The abbreviations are relatively few and mostly of common generic types. The abbreviation marks are simple, and sometimes it is not entirely clear whether a little flourish at the end of a word is meant to be an abbreviation or not, especially given the eccentric spelling, for example yer or yere for the word year. Occasionally a letter is entered in superscript. The above examples are just a sample from one section of the text. If you want to find them all, go through the text pages with the transcript. You might even find some we missed. |
| 15th century Brut Chronicle (British Library, add. ms. 33242, f.140-141). All images by permission of the British Library. |
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