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English: Page from the work Champ Fleury : auquel est contenu l'art et science de la deue et vraye proportio des lettres ...

Described a few pages earlier, Tory credits Pythagoras with the invention of the Y:

"JE ne veulx icy oublier a dire que Ypsilon fut jadis invente du noble Philosophe natif de l'Isle de Samos nomme Pythagoras, en la quelle lettre il figu moralisant que Hercules, c'est a dire l'Homme dispose a Vertus, au temps qu'il estoit en son jeune aage de la dicte adolescence, allant ung jour pensif par les champs a l'escard / vint a ung grant chemin qui forcheoit & se divisoit en deux aultres chemins, desquelz l'ung estoit moult large / & l'aultre bien estroit, & au large veit une femme nommee Volupte, qui luy tendoit la main pour le y faire entrer. Au chemin estroit estoit une Dame nommee Vertus, qui pareillement le vouloit faire entrer & cheminer en sa voye."

The man on the left side of the drawing plummeting into the fire is what was known in the classical tradition as a falling diphthong.
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Bibliothèque nationale de France
Author Geoffrey Tory
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