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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dear Kathie and everyone else who replied!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks so much from a newcomer to your list.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">And I second Deborah’s comment, by the way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Everyone is so generous with their expertise and time. Why am I not surprised.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Karen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Kathie Coblentz <kathiecoblentz@nypl.org>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 20, 2019 9:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Karen Nelson <karenjnelson@uvic.ca><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Odd [to me] text on a Latin-language thesis (Chromogram)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">From: Karen Nelson <</span><a href="mailto:karenjnelson@uvic.ca" target="_blank">karenjnelson@uvic.ca</a><span style="color:black">><br>
To: "DCRM Users' Group" <</span><a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a><span style="color:black">><br>
Cc: <br>
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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 22:17:39 +0000<br>
Subject: [DCRM-L] Odd [to me] text on a Latin-language thesis<br>
</span>Forgive my ignorance.<br>
This sentence is the last line of the title page from an 18<sup>th</sup> century German thesis:<br>
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<i>HoC anno</i> <b><u>IVbILeMVs</u></b> <i>Deo pro LVthero</i>.<br>
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What is the meaning of the bolded/underlined text?<br>
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Thanks, anyone who can help.<br>
Happy to hear offline, if this is too elementary to interest anyone else.<br>
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Karen<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Hi Karen, you probably already figured this out, but, as Jennifer explained:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">You count all uppercase letters that can be Roman numerals (not just the ones in the bolded word). And you perform a straight addition on them, rather
than sometimes subtracting as you do for conventional Roman numerals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">So you have C + I + V + I + L + M + V + D + L + V.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">In arabic numerals: 100 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 50 + 1000 + 5 + 500 + 50 + 5 =
<b>1717</b>. This was the 200th anniversary of Luther's Reformation, and was celebrated as a jubilee year in Protestant countries. Hence, the wording, which translates roughly as "This year, let us rejoice unto God for Luther."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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