Blackletter

This teaching module is ſuppoſed to ſhow the baſics of reading blackletter texts. However, for medieval Latin more documentation is neceſsary.

Among other things, the following things have to be expected (mainly for reading Latin):

The ſmall ‘r’ ſometimes looks ſlightly different after ‘o’ and other rounded letters. Alſo, there is a variant of ‘a’. Unfortunately theſe glyphs are currently miſsing from my ſcript teacher. However, ‘r’ rotunda occurs in the ligature for ‘etc.’.
			a a
			r r
There is a diacritic for ‘naſaliſed’. This is often ſeen on ‘-um’ endings. It looks like a ſmall hook or ſhort ſtroke.		uigīti	viginti
		ānis	annis
		oēs	omnes
The ‘qz’ ligature is often uſed for ‘que’.
		q'nqz	quinque
There are more abbreviations.
			et
		ſup̈	supra
		q̈dragīta	quadraginta
		p̱	per
		ſuaṟ	suarum
		ſingl'oṟ	singulorum
		.pcederēt	procederent
		gene'ationes	generationes
Becaııſe ııı the letters ‘i’, ‘u’, ‘n’, aııd ‘m’ the ııertıcal ſtrokes are ofteıı ııot or oııly barely coııııected aııd the ı dots ıııay be ııııſsıııg aııd becaııſe ‘v’ ıs ofteıı wrıtteıı lıke ‘u’ aııd ‘j’ lıke ‘i’, the texts ıııay be hard to read deſpıte kııowledge of all the ſıııgle letters. It theıı looks lıke thıs paragraph.

Enıoy!

(Henrık Theılıııg)

PS: All examples are from the same picture.