Meanings
- Synonym of long s.
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The script of the Latin praise poem is more filigree and smaller than on the remaining pages and appears even more influenced by cursive, since for example the stems of the ‘descending s’ and the ‘high-stemmed f’ reach under the imaginary line for writing, which is more common for Gothic cursive than for Gothic bookhand and which does not appear in the remainder of AM 382 4to.
2010, Susanne Miriam Fahn and Gottskálk Jensson, “The Forgotten Poem: A Latin Panegyric for Saint Þorlákr in AM 382 4to”, in Gripla, number 21, pages 36-37Synonyms: long s
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of long s.
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