Le_tilde_a-t-il_été_utilisé_en_f rançais?
From: | Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...> |
Date: | Friday, April 30, 2004, 11:07 |
The tilde, or "signe suscrit", was used in manuscripts
and stone inscriptions in the Middle Age. It looks
like it wasn't only used for the letters m and n, but
also for others. The goal seems to have been sparing
space and time. I believe the Romans did so too.
http://classes.bnf.fr/phebus/explo/pgmanuscr/paleo/d4.htm
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> Je viens d'entamer la lecture du livre de YANNIS
> HARALAMBOUS, "Fontes & codages", Ãditions O'Reilly,
> Paris, 2004.
> Dans l'introduction, on fait référence Ã
> l'ouvrage de GEOFROY TORY, "Champ fleury, au quel
> eſt contenu Lart & Science de la deue & vraye
> Proportiõ des Lettres Attiques, quõ dit autremẽt
> Lettres Antiques, & vulgairemẽt Lettres Romaines
> proportionees ſelon le Corps & Viſage humain",
> 1529.
> Dans ce titre, les voyelles nasales ne sont pas
> représentées par un "n" mais par un tilde sur la
> voyelle. Cette manière d'écrire était-elle
> courante au XVIe siècle?
>
> I've just begun to read the book "Fontes & codages"
> by YANNIS HARALAMBOUS, Ed. O'Reilly, Paris, 2004.
> In the introduction, there's a reference to the book
> "Champ fleury, au quel eſt contenu Lart & Science
> de la deue & vraye Proportiõ des Lettres Attiques,
> quõ dit autremẽt Lettres Antiques, &
> vulgairemẽt Lettres Romaines proportionees ſelon
> le Corps & Viſage humain" by GEOFROY TORY, 1529.
> In this title, the French nasal(ized?) vowels aren't
> written with a following "n" but with a tilde above
> the vowel. Was this way of writing common in the
> XVIth century?
>
> Le tilde pourrait être perçu comme un petit "N"
> majuscule au-dessus de la voyelle.
> The tilde could be perceived as a small capital "N"
> above the vowel.
>
> Jean-François Colson
>
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Philippe Caquant
"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)
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