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“What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: November 2017

For November’s Crocodile Mystery, tell us, if you will, what’s going on in the image below.

Leave your guess in the comments and we’ll be back next week with the answer!

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a chronogram?

elisabeth bruxer — October 31, 2017

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Yep.

Deborah J. Leslie — November 6, 2017

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I’d like to think it’s an example of a mixed case set of early modern refrigerator magnets in use.

Erin Blake — October 31, 2017

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Something to suggest for the gift shop: create your own chronogram

Deborah J. Leslie — November 6, 2017

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It could be the later part of “Laudibus in Sanctis” from William Byrd’s Cantiones Sacrae. The capitals might be a stressing guide for singing the hymn. Alternately, it the capitals ISCI could be the Latin suffix -isci, though suffix for what would depend on what preceded it.

Jeffrey — November 4, 2017

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Good try!

Deborah J. Leslie — November 6, 2017

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