Alte Schrift

[Corey Roberts]

The Majority of the German fighting manuals are written in the old German script. Does anybody know of any resources for familiarizing oneself mit der alte Schrift? I have trouble telling what letter is what.

[David Kite]

As far as "how to" books, I don't have any idea.

What I did to familiarize myself with it was to look closely at Zabinski and Walczak's translation/transcription of Codex Wallerstein (as an example). It's got b/w images of the original manuscript along with a transcription, translation into modern German, and translation into modern English (in case you didn't know).

I just looked closely at their translation and worked slowly through whatever text I was working on myself, and eventually got fairly decent at doing so (at least I used to be).

Hope that helps.
David Kite
GFS, ARMA in IN

[s_taillebois]

The Majority of the German fighting manuals are written in the old German script. Does anybody know of any resources for familiarizing oneself mit der alte Schrift? I have trouble telling what letter is what.

If your referring to late period fechtbuchs, might look up Albrecht Durer (Northern Renn. Artist) , he wrote several treatises on the proper shaping of letters.
Another way, would be to learn Gothic/Chancery and other such period lettering from a general calligraphy book. Becomes much easier to read the letters once you've written in the same manner.