RE: VMs: f66r, der muszdel

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 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

Cool! So the VMs may have been written by a
Hessian. That explains :-)

Seriously, though, the map says that it's valid
for the 'Gegenwart'  which is the current time.
How would it have looked a couple of hundred
years ago? 

--- Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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?

Well, I do live roughly in between Frankfurt and
Worms. Of course, I'm no expert here, but I have
been toying with the idea of looking up someone
in the Hessische Landesbibliothek and confront
them with the VMs (and the extraneous) script.

This may be timely, what with the Focus article
as an ice breaker (I kind of forgot to mention that
it not only has my name but also my picture 
in it :-/ ).

If you're interested in doing a web search,
one place you should definitely look up is 
the famous abbey of Lorsch (just across the 
Rhine from Worms).

Cheers, Rene

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