This kind of style of writing was approximately formed during the 6-7 th centuries after the introduction of. capture them as 'sz'.Traditional Gaelic Written Alphabet. In Middle Scots, seem to be a spelling of the sound otherwise PFS: I believe that the characters are an unligaturedДЇorm of tall-s + z (eszed), which in this text, as elsewhere Understandably, as the character entity 'absed'. Looked like long 's' and 'yogh/z', which pdcc captured, Many words (about 800) ended with characters that Text showed the usual Scottish preservation of the With our rule not to correct printers' errors. If it really wereДЄ clear 'p' I think I'd leave it as 'p' in keeping Of 'y', so as a dubious case I'd make it 'y' (a malformed 'y') It *may* be a genuine typo (p for y), but it has theД¬rook in the bottom of the ascender characteristic The first letter of the second 'yai' is more doubtful: The first letter of the first 'yai' is clearly 'y'

I thinkДЄll the historic thorns have been printed, as they usually are, as 'y.' It's just that the 'y' in this book is very similar to 'p.' I can't find any trace of an attempt to distinguish between historic 'y' and historic 'thorn' so we should leave them all as 'y' as we usually do.Д¬uld yai haif spokin, doutles yai had said: I don't think you really have any 'p's for thorns. So you should change z to &yogh and Z to &YOGH. We have different character entities for upper- and lower-case yogh, namely &YOGH and &yogh respectively. In this short book, I can't find any 'real'Д¬ases of zed to compare, but I'd go ahead anywayДЄnd change the zeds to yoghs. Sure that it is really an exception, since oneД¬an often make out a real physical distinctionД«etween the letter used for zed and the letter 'something' of an exception because I am not Printed 'ye'), we have made something of anД®xception with regard to yoghs in Scottish books (thus we print 'ye' for both historic 'ye' and Is a merger of two historically distinct letters Letters as printed even when the printed letter Saxon type in here, as one might expect from one of John Selden'sД«ooks, including extended passages amounting to perhaps two pages PFS: these look ok, but looking around, I see *a lot* more 'sciregemot', 'Godes right' and '&wyn uruldes right' Reviewer: image 227, lh page, I've captured: In even more exotic typefaces are (syriac, ethiopic, persian, etc.) Makes one wonder how accurate the occasional bits The printers were unaccustomed to the type, they were prone to In a book that is otherwise in modern English. That are much less obviously justifiable, especially if it is (and much of the AS type we've seen has been riddled with typos PFS: I think sometimes the printers were not very concerned to It hard in particular to distinguish p and wyn. Paul, would you mind checking my transcription I find I've captured these and looked for others capturedДЄs GAPs. Used the same type for Irish as for Anglo-Saxon.ДЄ couple of bits of Saxon type were captured as Some printers (including this one?) may well have Our ambition (as with the Anglo-Saxon type) is to capture it if We've had so little Irish that it's not been an issue, but I think Hard to read, especially if one doesn't read Irish to start with ДЄ bit like reading German in fraktur, if one knows no German. Much earlier common insular (Anglo-Irish) book hands. Of late medieval manuscript hands derived originally from the It's just that Irish type design has favored the pointier varieties PFS: Theoretically at least, Irish is written in a Roman alphabet Gaelic? I suppose we do treat Gaelic fonts as non-Roman? Would you mind checking this and the three that I think are 'Cantred is a Brittish word, answering to the Saxon Hundred.' I've keyed the Saxon one, as 'Hundre$', (p107, im250): Was Gk, three I think in a Gaelic font, and one, I think, in Saxon. The crossed-thorn symbol for 'that' (&that ). Wynn (w), as well as the 7-shaped ampersand (&) and occasionally (The type is not very hard to read, and only differs in a few lettersДЇrom the ordinary latin alphabet (especially d, s, f, r, and theДistinctive characters thorn (captured as Гѕ), eth (Г°), and Pages (and searched through for 'saxon' and characteristic combinations)ДЄnd corrected and/or supplied several dozen bits of Anglo-Saxon.Д«ut I'm sure some miscaptured or uncaptured bits remain. Treated as illegible, sometimes GAPped as 'foreign', sometimesДЄll of these mixed together. Has been inconsistently captured: sometimes mistranscribed, sometimes EEBO Text Creation Partnership Fonts On this Page

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