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his 2005 paper, "Towards a History of the Manicule", he used the term manicule. It is derived from the Latin root manicula, meaning "little hand". Cognates of the term were common in Romance languages, but the English loanword manicule was largely restricted to manuscript scholarship prior to Sherman's paper. Sherman explains his decision not to use one of the various English terms because manicule describes the mark itself while many

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