[DCRM-L] Unidentified signature symbol

[Linde B.]

that's one early form of the pilcrow, or calderón in Spanish, or paragraph
mark, as the person identified it.

>From the 1534 *Copilación de todas las obras del famosissimo poeta Juan de
Mena* (Sevilla: Juan de Varela):

*​ *

Best,

Linde M. Brocato



On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Ted P Gemberling <tgemberl at uab.edu> wrote:

> 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 **two** 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]?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ted P. Gemberling
>
> Historical Collections Cataloger
>
> UAB Lister Hill Library, rm. 234B
>
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>
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>
> Phone: (205)934-2461
>
> Fax: (205)934-3545
>
>
>



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