The words ‘per se’ abbreviated in a 12th-century German manuscript (‘per’ is represented as a p with a stroke sticking out of its descender, while the ‘s’ in ‘se’ looks like an f without the horizontal stroke), Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 16
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