[5] With the adoption of movable type printing, the (then current) blackletter form of the letter ⟨z⟩,
is used to indicate a detailed description of something stated before, and when it precedes a list of group members, it implies (near) completeness.
A similar expression is scilicet, from earlier scire licet, abbreviated as sc., which is Latin for "it is permitted to know."
provides a parenthetic clarification, removes an ambiguity, or supplies a word omitted in preceding text, while viz.
It can also appear as a section sign (§) in a caption, where it is used to provide a statement of venue, that is to say a location where an action is to take place.