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malhen | 07:48 Sat 26th Jan 2013 | Arts & Literature
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Could anybody familiar with printing terminology help me with this abstruse question? What is the name of the print symbol used throughout the 1662 Book of Common Prayer to indicate an italicised rubric in the service format? It is shaped like an inverted capital P with the inside bit of the P filled in with a thin line parallel to the shaft of the P?

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Is this it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow
08:19 Sat 26th Jan 2013
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Well done, vascop. Yes, that's it! I shall sleep tonight
It is a reversed P and stands/stood for 'paragraph'

Do you HAVE a 1662 prayer book - they are worth quite a lot of money - but I c an't quite locate a recent auction price

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