<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(12,52,61)">that's one early form of the pilcrow, or calderón in Spanish, or paragraph mark, as the person identified it.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(12,52,61)">From the 1534 <i>Copilación de todas las obras del famosissimo poeta Juan de Mena</i> (Sevilla: Juan de Varela):<br><i><img src="cid:ii_ifa1k2h50_1502a04c2d6d928f" height="212" width="427"><br> </i><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(12,52,61)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(12,52,61)">Best,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(12,52,61)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(12,52,61)">Linde M. Brocato<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(12,52,61)"><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Ted P Gemberling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tgemberl@uab.edu" target="_blank">tgemberl@uab.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m cataloging a book from 1634 with a preliminary leaf signed with a symbol I can’t identify from the DCRB(b) manual. The original cataloger transcribed it as [par.], but I don’t think it’s the same as that symbol. It looks like a capital
C with a vertical line through it. I suppose it would look close to a [par.] symbol if there were *<b>two</b>* vertical lines and they extended below the rounded part. Do you know what to call this symbol? Is it ever justified to just transcribe something
as [unidentified symbol]?<u></u><u></u></p>
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as philosopher John Searle says it is, but the distinction <i>between</i> brute fact and social fact is itself a social fact, not a brute fact, which is why the history of science is so interesting.<br></font></span></font></span></span></div><div style="text-align:right"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font>--Michael Berubé<br></font></span><br></font></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:right"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Georgia;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.</span></font></span></span></p><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Georgia;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">--Dorothy Salisbury Davis</span></font></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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