I had thought it was Johannes to Jns - and then if you write the s in that circular sort of way that people often do, it mutates into Jno. I probably just made that up, though.
Medieval scribes must have got pretty tired of writing it, since every other man was called John (or else had some barbaric Welsh name for which any civilised scribe would substitute "John")
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Date: 2012-10-24 04:13 pm (UTC)Medieval scribes must have got pretty tired of writing it, since every other man was called John (or else had some barbaric Welsh name for which any civilised scribe would substitute "John")