[DCRM-L] Unidentified signature symbol

[Deborah J. Leslie]

Yes.

From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Ted P Gemberling
Sent: Friday, 02 October 02 2015 15:32
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Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Unidentified signature symbol

Thanks, that looks the same. So [par.] would be correct?
Ted

From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu<mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Linde B.
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 2:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Unidentified signature symbol

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):
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Best,

Linde M. Brocato


On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Ted P Gemberling <tgemberl at uab.edu<mailto: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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Birmingham, Ala. 35294-0013
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