Hi! Sure, I can put a digital version together once I'm done. I'd probably make one for the people from Wust anyway, so it wouldn't be much of a hassle to share it ^^ Don't know when it will be done though.
From what I've seen, learning how to write Kurrent is a solid first step to learning how to read it (worked for me and some of my friends, also looks fancy on greeting cards), so if you have the time for it, that could be a fun project. Most alphabet samples I've seen online were for Kurrent around 1900, but the changes in the 400 years before that weren't too significant, so it's still a good point to start. This one's nice because it also has some ligatures, like the st:
The annoying parts are usually: 1. that people just write the capital letters however they want (see: The B in the Keith transcript, "Oriane", any K ever...) 2. es, ns, rs, vs... that really weird u from the Keith transcript that looked like a swirly S... 3. random Latin script instead of German script (mostly for names and words in other languages) that could be an entirely different word in the same hand's Kurrent (is it an s? is it an h? maybe a t? fuck if I know! Especially annoying if you don't actually know which name the word is supposed to be)
But it's fun. So far I know that Hans Heinrich von Katte had four dozen plates and 16 bowls polished in 1726 and possibly bought a box. And a lot of lemons and mussels.
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Kurrent Stuff
Date: 2021-11-17 06:46 pm (UTC)From what I've seen, learning how to write Kurrent is a solid first step to learning how to read it (worked for me and some of my friends, also looks fancy on greeting cards), so if you have the time for it, that could be a fun project. Most alphabet samples I've seen online were for Kurrent around 1900, but the changes in the 400 years before that weren't too significant, so it's still a good point to start. This one's nice because it also has some ligatures, like the st:
The annoying parts are usually:
1. that people just write the capital letters however they want (see: The B in the Keith transcript, "Oriane", any K ever...)
2. es, ns, rs, vs... that really weird u from the Keith transcript that looked like a swirly S...
3. random Latin script instead of German script (mostly for names and words in other languages) that could be an entirely different word in the same hand's Kurrent (is it an s? is it an h? maybe a t? fuck if I know! Especially annoying if you don't actually know which name the word is supposed to be)
But it's fun. So far I know that Hans Heinrich von Katte had four dozen plates and 16 bowls polished in 1726 and possibly bought a box. And a lot of lemons and mussels.