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Engrosser Script - French edition by a German master
« on: November 07, 2016, 09:15:05 AM »
Johann Gottfried Weber

Engrosser script which he calls it French style.  Middle column, is flourished.


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Re: Engrosser Script - French edition by a German master
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2016, 09:30:21 AM »

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Re: Engrosser Script - French edition by a German master
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2016, 02:36:40 PM »
That is stunning! Do you have more of his work?
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Re: Engrosser Script - French edition by a German master
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2016, 03:24:56 PM »
@Estefa or @tintenfuchs : what does "Bröheres" mean?  This has been bothering me!

Natascha: if you click on the picture and then "back to photostream", it's like Aladdin's cave in there.  :)

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Re: Engrosser Script - French edition by a German master
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2016, 04:35:33 PM »
@Estefa or @tintenfuchs : what does "Bröheres" mean?  This has been bothering me!

Natascha: if you click on the picture and then "back to photostream", it's like Aladdin's cave in there.  :)

@AndyT – I am pretty sure it means »Größeres« (Bigger), if you have a look at that pic:



Check the alphabet under Nr. 1. Gothic caps can be quite confusing – the G (3d row on the left) really looks quite like the B (1st row in the middle) …

What you read for h is an ß, I think (s-s ligature, long s + short s).

So what the headline says, is »Bigger Latin and French: Big Latin Alphabet | Alphabet with Flourishing | Small Latin Fraktur Alphabet(??)«, the latter I find quite confusing, because the lower case letter on the right don't look like Fraktur to me … and what a Latin Fraktur should be, I also don't know – Latin is what was in German called the non-gothic letters (because in science = Latin, this script was used, whereas for German text Fraktur, Textura etc.).

Sorry for hijacking you post, @InkyFingers – very beautiful exemplars indeed!!
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Re: Engrosser Script - French edition by a German master
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2016, 04:51:25 PM »

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Re: Engrosser Script - French edition by a German master
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2016, 05:01:28 PM »
Thanks @Estefa , you are undoubtedly right.  I should have spotted the eszett, but that G ... if it ain't a B, it'll do till a B comes along.  ;)  Weirdly, the heading to the left hand column is perfectly legible.

The terminology is certainly confusing: I can think of no explanation for that "Fraktur" unless it has an archaic meaning unrelated to gothic forms.  As for that "französicsh", the capitals look an awful lot like "Anglaise" to me (although the minuscules do have a slightly French character ... maybe).

Anyway, curiosity satisfied.  My apologies, InkyFingers, that was all my fault.  /digression.  :)

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Re: Engrosser Script - French edition by a German master
« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2016, 03:50:04 PM »
OMG -- I didn't realize there were so much stuffs I shared... time to clean up and close the gate.

@Estefa or @tintenfuchs : what does "Bröheres" mean?  This has been bothering me!

Natascha: if you click on the picture and then "back to photostream", it's like Aladdin's cave in there.  :)