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

[Karen Nelson]

Thank you, Matt!

I am new at this material, and hadn’t encountered a chronogram outside the textbooks…

Will get started.

KN

From: DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> On Behalf Of Matthew Murphy
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2019 3:28 PM
To: DCRM Users' Group <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Odd [to me] text on a Latin-language thesis

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<mailto:karenjnelson at uvic.ca>> wrote:
Forgive my ignorance.
This sentence is the last line of the title page from an 18th century Greman thesis:

HoC anno IVbILeMVs Deo pro LVthero.

What is the meaning of the bolded/underlined text?

Thanks, anyone who can help.
Happy to hear offline, if this is too elementary to interest anyone else.

Karen
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