RE: VMs: f66r, der muszdel

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Rene,

At 23:28 08/03/2004 -0800, you wrote:
> 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?

I'm pretty sure Philip was saying that the green area on the (modern) map 
is a fair representation of Westmitteldeutsch circa 1500. But where does 
one dialect end and another begin? Perhaps the boundaries may have been 
largely based on physical geography (with mountains or hills as borders?) 
or topological geography (road systems?) - these days, I guess cars tend to 
insulate us from the former. :-o

> 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.

If you do decide to try this, it might be an idea to enlarge, enhance and 
print out all the Germanic-style script fragments (f66r, f17r, & perhaps 
the zodiac month names too?) onto a single page to take with you. Who knows 
what you might find out! :-)

> 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).

Lorsch Abbey and the Lorsch pharmacopeia (from circa 795):-
        http://www.kloster-lorsch.de/lingua/englisch.html
        It might be interesting for you that here at Lorsch the oldest
        pharmacopoeia was compiled - a collection of medical
        prescriptions, most of them taken from antique, classical sources.

Or http://www.lorsch.de/english/cloister.html (etc)

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


______________________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying:
unsubscribe vms-list