Re: A sign/abbreviation for "magister"

[Asmus Freytag via Unicode]

On 10/27/2018 4:10 AM, Janusz S. Bień via Unicode wrote: Hi! On the over 100 years old postcard https://photos.app.goo.gl/GbwNwYbEQMjZaFgE6 you can see 2 occurences of a symbol which is explicitely explained (in Polish) as meaning "Magister". First question is: how do you interpret the symbol? For me it is definitely the capital M followed by the superscript "r" (written in an old style no longer used in Poland), but there is something below the superscript. It looks like a small "z", but such an interpretation doesn't make sense for me. The second question is: are you familiar with such or a similar symbol? Have you ever seen it in print? The third and the last question is: how to encode this symbol in Unicode? Best regards Janusz My suspicion would be that the small "z" is rather a "=" that acquired a connecting stroke as part of quick handwriting. A./