The original can be found here: http://imgur.com/aIS7BEk
I am quite used to 13th-C. English Court-hand, so at first glance, I thought “well, I probably need to just look more closely at this… well… nope!” Lol, a handful of words popped out at me, but after that, I felt very lost. Does anyone know what type of script this is or from which century it came?
Any help, would be… well, helpful! It would be very, very, very helpful though, since it would give me an idea of where to start.
Thank so much to all!!!
Best,
-ELM
p.s. bonus awesome points if you can determine what it is, when it was written, or what it is about.
I think it’s some sort of 13th-14th c. Gothic cursive, but anything beyond that is a mystery to me. As a starting point, you might take a look at B. Bischoff, Latin Paleography: Antiquity & the Middle Ages, trans. Ó Cróinín and Ganz, (Cambridge 1990). Plates 17 and 20 seem to show some similarities. No bonus points for me. Bischoff has an extensive bibliography, so if you have access to a good reference library and you’re really interested in hunting this down, you can start there.
I think the standard practice is to solve different letters in a new script or hand one by one. How are a’s written, or how α’s, etc. This script is difficult to me. I thought I saw apud near the middle of the first line, but I could well be mistaken. Do you think what looks like two vertical lines correspond to a u, three to an m? If so, isn’t that quite a Fraktur (or Blackletter) -like way of writing them as Hylander suggested? Also a P (surely capital) at the beginning of the fifth word on the third line. But what letter follows it?