17.02.26: Level 3; Celestial Sphere: from the authors [3] Poeticon Astronomicon; Hyginus

[1] In fīnītiōne mundī circulī sunt parallēlī quīnque, in quibus tōta ratiō sphaerae cōnsistit, praeter eum quī zōdiacus appellātur; │ At the boundary of the world there are five parallel circles, in which the entire system of the sphere is contained, except for that one which is called the zodiac;

[2] quī, quod nōn ut cēterī circulī certā dīmēnsiōne fīnītur et inclīnātior aliīs vidētur, λοξός [loksos] ā Graecīs est dictus. │ and this (circle), because it is not bounded by a fixed dimension like the others and appears more inclined than the rest, is called loxos by the Greeks.

[3] Quīnque autem quōs suprā dīximus sīc in sphaerā mētiuntur: │ The five (circles), which we have mentioned above, measure out / divide the sphere in this manner:

[4] initiō sūmptō ā polō quī boreus appellātur, ad eum quī notius et antarcticus vocātur, in trīgintā partēs ūnumquodque hēmisphaerium dīviditur, ita utī dīmēnsiō significārī videātur in tōtā sphaerā sexāgintā partēs factās. │ Beginning from the pole called Boreas (the northern pole) to that which is called Notus or Antarctic, each hemisphere is divided into thirty parts, so that the entire sphere is seen to be marked out into sixty parts in all.

• boreās, -ae [1/m]: north; north wind
• boreus, -a, -um; boreālis, -e: northern; Aurōra Boreālis: Northern Lights
• Notus, -ī [2/m]: god of the Southern Wind
• hēmisphaerium, -ī  [2/n]: hemisphere
• ūnum¦quodque: each

05.12.25: Level 3; indefinites [16] -que

https://adckl.blogspot.com/2025/09/051225-level-3-indefinites-16-que.html

Image: woodcut from the 1482 edition

Note further features of abbreviation

[i] the letter /q/ with a stroke through it (ꝗ); again, depending on the writer, it could equal an entire word e.g. quam, but here it indicates the omission of letters:

Eꝗnoctialis = equinoctialis

28.11.25: the Domesday Book; reading the manuscript [v] types of abbreviation [iv]; mind your p’s and q’s

https://adckl.blogspot.com/2025/08/281125-domesday-book-reading-manuscript_35.html

[ii] (Difficult to make out in the image): zodiacʔ (the sign usually marking the omission of -us or -rum) = zodiacus