Alphabets old and new, for the use of craftsmen : with an introductory essay on Art in the alphabet (1898)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London : Batsford · leaf 68
material. With regard, now, to Numerals. Until the 15thcentury, the letters )\I, D, C, L, X, V, and I werein general use to express numbers. The Arabic numerals, as they are called, foundtheir way into Europe some time during the 12thcentury, but did not come into general use beforethe 15th, nor… … 33- PAINTED ON ITALIAN MAJOLICA. i6tH CENTURY. 38 Art ill the Alphabe-t, \ to be really an equal-limbed 7 placed (as it wouldnaturally fall) so as to rest upon its two ends: itis not the figure that is changed, but its position.Much more puzzling is the early form of 4 (192,1193, 194), a loop with…
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