I'm teaching Gothic cursive to a class of Germanists tomorrow. In the manuscript they're studying the letter h (see red boxes) looks like a curl at the top, followed by two straight strokes at the bottom. How does one get to the point where "h" is written like this??
(The answer is that there's a process of development, but this playing fast and loose with shape is why cursive scripts are hard to read).
@litteracarolina@histodons@medievodons Yup, that's the reason why I can't read those "modern" manuscripts, well. I prefer uncial or carolingian miniscule. But right now, I read some 15th century manuscripts with my students, and sometimes even I can't decipher the words...
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