[DCRM-L] Odd [to me] text on a Latin-language thesis

[Matthew Murphy]

Hi Karen,

This looks like a chronogram, you can see an example here on the dcrm (b)
examples page:

http://www.loc.gov/cds/desktop/documents/DCRMBex/Images/DCRMBex_23B_ex23.jpg

(You can see the record as well-- Example 23
http://www.loc.gov/cds/desktop/documents/DCRMBex/)

Best regards,
Matt

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 6:18 PM Karen Nelson <karenjnelson at uvic.ca> wrote:

> Forgive my ignorance.
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> This sentence is the last line of the title page from an 18th century
> Greman thesis:
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> *HoC anno* *IVbILeMVs* *Deo pro LVthero*.
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> What is the meaning of the bolded/underlined text?
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> Thanks, anyone who can help.
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> Happy to hear offline, if this is too elementary to interest anyone else.
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> Karen
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