: Older sign for silence? This is a manuscript from Mozart. Can anyone confirm that the sign that's circled is a silence and provide a bit more background about that symbol?

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older sign for silence?
This is a manuscript from Mozart.

Can anyone confirm that the sign that's circled is a silence and provide a bit more background about that symbol?

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This is indeed an old sign for a crotchet/quarter rest.

Here for comparison is a bar from Mozart's Fantasia in c minor, K475, published in Vienna by Artaria: