The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c12.83

c12.83

Many printed works anterior to 1471 have pages or chapters numbered by hand, but many of these numerals are of date much later than the printing of the work. Other works were probably numbered directly after printing. Thus the chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 in a book of 1470¹ are numbered as follows: Capitulem zm., . . . 3m., . . . 4m., . . . v, . . . vi, and followed by Roman numerals. This appears in the body of the text, in spaces left by the printer to be filled in by hand. Another book² of 1470 has pages numbered by hand with a mixture of Roman and Hindu numerals, thus,