Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

Here is a report of a rather strange beast occurring in historical math printing (work of C. F. Gauß) in thw 19th century:

 

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/284483/how-do-i-typeset-this-symbol-possibly-astronomical

 

images are here:

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/abhandlungenmet00gausrich#page/n129/mode/2up

http://i.stack.imgur.com/57fN3.png

 

It looks like a big digit "7" or like a turned letter "L". In the accepted answer it was identified with the Tironian note et; an identification

I'd dispute because the Tironian note Et is usually smaller in size than a capital latin letter.

 

Anyone knows what it is?

 

--Jörg Knappen