RE: VMs: f66r, der muszdel

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Philip,

At 21:31 08/03/2004 +0000, Philip Neal wrote:
> The green area on this modern map is the right area for West Central
> German (Westmitteldeutsch).
> http://members.tripod.com/~radde/Mundarten.html

That's a big help, thanks! BTW, here's a short page I found on WCG, put 
together by Dr Jonathan West at Newcastle (plus his homepage):-
        http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/staff/west/enhg_wcg.htm
        http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/staff/west.php

However, not speaking German, I'm a little out of my depth here: all the 
links I followed in this area seemed to be to do not with palaeography but 
with linguistics - specifically, working with transcriptions and phonetic 
renderings. So... do you have any recommendations for where I should look 
to find scans of everyday (ie non-scribal) documents from this region 
(Frankfurt, Worms, Trier, etc) circa 1500? I guess Jon West might be a good 
person to ask about this?

> These inscriptions are so short that I wouldn't want to commit myself.
> They look the same general age to me. The month names are all
> possible forms in mediaeval / early modern German, including Octember.

Great, thanks -

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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