Citations:c caudata

c with cedilla, ç

• 1763, Hipólito San Joseph Giral del Pino, A dictionary, Spanish and English, and English and Spanish, entry on "C":

  […] a kind of comma under it thus (ç); this is called in Spanish cedilla, or C caudata, which letter being useless, and having the same sound as the Z, has been taken off, from the Spanish alphabet,

• 2003, Albert Derolez, David Ganz, The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books (Cambridge University Press):

  page 115: z normally takes the 'Iberian' shape of figure 3 […] . It can be replaced by c caudata (23, pl. 64).

  page 188: Except for e caudata (in fact a form of ae-ligature) and c caudata (ç), Latin manuscripts do not normally use any other letter signs than those of the modern Latin alphabet.

• 2018, A Companion to the Poema de mio Cid, page 48:

  In the c caudata, the cedilla is placed quite below the baseline, as is usual in the semihybrida, but it is connected to the c, like in the (semi)textualis. The round allograph of s (used in final position) does not have the beta or sigma shapes of s […] found in the letra de albalaes.

• 2022, Philip Knox, The Romance of the Rose and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature, page 227:

  This scribe uses letter forms (like the c caudata [ç] for z) that are consistent with the cursive book hand used in Italy until the end of the fourteenth century known as cancelleresca.