05/04/2005

17th century


So,
I spend my day in 17th century world. Archives were silent and the time was flying. Handwriting in old documents was quite beautiful - yet hard to comprehend. Try yourself to read German script or fraktura which was used in Finnish documents as well. It's not an easy job, even though it gives a huge amount of pleasure. I don't really see any difference in 17th century and 18th century texts. It's more up to the personal style of the clerks and vicars. Of course you can think that I am

Mad as a hatter...

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