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Is that a "Hand" doodle? http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-04000/15 http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-04000/15
by max_ 6y ago
Is that a "Hand" doodle?
http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-04000/15 http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-04000/15
- pvida 6y agoIt certainly seems so. I love how simple-yet-not-too-simple it is.
- jq-r 6y agoIt is the exactly the same hand symbol Henry VIII used to mark down interesting passages in Bible which he hoped would help him to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
- ian0 6y agoApparently called an index or manicule with examples spotted from the 12th century.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(typography) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(typography)
- lioeters 6y agoDelightful! I'd say this manicule is a proto-emoji of sorts. > Thomas Pynchon parodies this punctuation mark in his novel Gravity's Rainbow by depicting a middle finger, rather than an index finger, pointing at a line of text.
- runawaybottle 6y agoNewton used emojis??
- katzgrau 6y agoCame here for this comment :) Saw the hand and that immediately became my favorite thing in the notebook.