Hi Alejandro >>in Roman characters, such as "... the xviij October", or "the xxvijth day of January". I assume that the use of the "j" is just a convention<< Yes it was a convention to write the last i in a figure as a j to prevent someone adding in another one or two - that could have made a lot of difference when it was money, so rather like the line we use to fill in any blank space on our cheques today. And of course in the roman alphabet they were just different ways of writing the same letter, so that an inscription to Julius Ceaser would be written IULIUS CEASER! HTH Polly Polly Rubery List owner: MIDMARCH-L@rootsweb.com A genealogy and local history list covering the Counties of Brecon, Hereford, Monmouth, Shropshire, Stafford and Worcester ENG-HEREFORD-L@rootsweb.com ROWBERRY-L@rootsweb.com Acting List owner: Bristol_and_Somerset-L@rootsweb.com ROWBERRY/RUBERY ONS - GOONS #278 rowberry@one-name.org http://www.rowberry.org Webmaster for the Herefordshire Family History Society http://www.rootsweb.com/~ukhfhs/index.html Kind regards
maybe IULIUS CAESAR - Denne meldingen er sjekket for virus av Norton Anti-virus - This message was checked for virus by Norton Anti-virus ----- Original Message ----- From: "Polly Rubery" <polly@rowberry.org> To: <OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [OEL] Days in Roman characters > Hi Alejandro > > >>in Roman characters, such as "... the xviij October", or > "the xxvijth day of January". I assume that the use of the "j" is just a > convention<< > > Yes it was a convention to write the last i in a figure as a j to prevent > someone adding in another one or two - that could have made a lot of > difference when it was money, so rather like the line we use to fill in any > blank space on our cheques today. > > And of course in the roman alphabet they were just different ways of writing > the same letter, so that an inscription to Julius Ceaser would be written > IULIUS CEASER! > HTH > Polly > > Polly Rubery > List owner: MIDMARCH-L@rootsweb.com > A genealogy and local history list covering the Counties of Brecon, > Hereford, Monmouth, Shropshire, Stafford and Worcester > ENG-HEREFORD-L@rootsweb.com > ROWBERRY-L@rootsweb.com > Acting List owner: Bristol_and_Somerset-L@rootsweb.com > ROWBERRY/RUBERY ONS - GOONS #278 > rowberry@one-name.org > http://www.rowberry.org > Webmaster for the Herefordshire Family History Society > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ukhfhs/index.html > > Kind regards > > > ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE from list mode -- > Send the one word UNSUBSCRIBE to > OLD-ENGLISH-L-request@rootsweb.com > >