A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . es History of the Cortes of Spain, several examples aregiven of the use of fanciful monograms in that country at an early period,and which were probably introduced by its Gothic invaders. That suchmarks were stamped is almost certain; for the first, which is that ofGundisalvo Tellez, affixed to a charter of the date of 840, is the same asthe sign which was afiixed by his widow, Flamula, when she grantedcertain property to the abbot and monks of Cardena for the good of herdeceased husbands soul. The second, which is of the date of 886,
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . es History of the Cortes of Spain, several examples aregiven of the use of fanciful monograms in that country at an early period,and which were probably introduced by its Gothic invaders. That suchmarks were stamped is almost certain; for the first, which is that ofGundisalvo Tellez, affixed to a charter of the date of 840, is the same asthe sign which was afiixed by his widow, Flamula, when she grantedcertain property to the abbot and monks of Cardena for the good of herdeceased husbands soul. The second, which is of the date of 886, wasused both by the abbot Ovecus, and Peter his nephew ; and the third wasused by all the four children of one Ordono, as their sign to a charterof donation executed in 1018. The fourth mark is a Eunic cypher,copied from an ancient Icelandic manuscript, and given by Peringskioldin his Annotations on the Life of Theodoric: it is not given here asbeing from a stencil or a stamp, but that it may be compared with theapparently Gothic monograms used in In their inscriptions, and in the rubrics of their books, says a writerin the Edinburgh Eeview,* the Spanish Goths, like the Eomans of theLower Empire, were fond of using combined capitals—of monogram-matising. This mode of writing is now common in Spain, on the sign-boards and on the shop-fronts, where it has retained its place in defianceof the canons of the council [of Leon]. The Goths, however, retaineda truly Gothic custom in their writings. The Spanish Goth sometimessubscribed his name ; or he drew a monogram like the Eoman emperors,or the sign of the cross like the Saxon ; but not imfrequently he affixedstrange and fanciful marks to the deed or charter, bearing a close resem-blance to the Eunic or magical knots of which so many have beenengraved by Peringskiold, and other northern antiquaries. To the tenth or the eleventh century are also to be referred certainsmall silver coins— something between counters and money
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