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Though not a common design I have found this variant in the works of other scribes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e~2011, Don Marsh~\u003cbr\u003e©2011 Don Marsh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Don Marsh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42430959452254,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/7828\/2846\/files\/Ampersand_Francesco_Moro__2011_Don_Marsh.jpg?v=1769710005"},{"product_id":"ampersand-neudorffer-inspired","title":"Ampersand - Neudorffer Inspired","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA somewhat stripped down yet curiously still extravagant ampersand paired with the letter \"c\" to form an abbreviation for \"et cetera,\" inspired by the work of 14th c. scribe Neudorffer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e~2010, Don Marsh~\u003cbr\u003e©2010 Don Marsh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Don Marsh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42430960762974,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/7828\/2846\/files\/Ampersand_Neudorffer_Inspired_2010_Don_Marsh.jpg?v=1769710237"},{"product_id":"ampersand-palatino-manual","title":"Ampersand - Palatino Manual","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Palatino's manual (1540), the ampersand is liberally used. 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Arguably the most important French penman of the 15th c., Barbedor, Secretary to the King, was assigned the task of revising the scripts used for all official French documents \u0026amp; publications. It is Barbedor's work that created the transformative stage between the obsolete gothic cursives and what would become English Roundhand.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e~2014, Don Marsh~\u003cbr\u003e©2014 Don Marsh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Don Marsh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42430972461150,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/7828\/2846\/files\/Ampersand_Louis_Barbedor_2014_Don_Marsh.jpg?v=1769710975"},{"product_id":"ampersand-francesco-moro-etcetra","title":"Ampersand - Francesco Moro - Et cetra","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA unique ampersand used by Francesco Moro throughout his c. 1560 treatise in falconry. Though not a common design I have found this variant in the works of other scribes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe ampersand was much more popular throughout the past 600 years than it is today. So popular that it was used in some fun \u0026amp; interesting ways. One such interesting use was to create an abbreviation of the word et cetera, which today we write as etc., but at one time was commonly written as \u0026amp;c. Here are a few historic examples from the 1500 thru the 1900s.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e~2010, Don Marsh~\u003cbr\u003e©2010 Don Marsh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Don Marsh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42430981177438,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/7828\/2846\/files\/Ampersand_Francesco_Moro_2_2010_Don_Marsh.jpg?v=1769711719"},{"product_id":"ampersand-history","title":"Ampersand - History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe ampersand was much more popular throughout the past 600 years than it is today. So popular that it was used in some fun \u0026amp; interesting ways. One such interesting use was to create an abbreviation of the word et cetera, which today we write as etc., but at one time was commonly written as \u0026amp;c. 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However, the ampersand in this example is one of the most unusual I have ever come across. It appears to draw on ancient systems of abbreviation. That is to say, abbreviations were commonly notated with: swashes, hash-marks, commas, apostrophes, slashes, underscores, super-scores, superscripts, and periods. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis unique \"\u0026amp;\" design was rendered as an x-height c-like mark flowing into a descender loop and surmounted with a superscript dot. 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