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Can you recognize the English on the "ancient" pic?

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oristarA
 
Reply Thu 5 Jan, 2017 08:23 am
Every letter looks the same. Such artistic writing is hard to appreciate.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Dirc_van_Delft_-_The_Holy_Ghost_and_the_Seven_Deadly_Sins_-_Walters_W171110R_-_Full_Page.jpg/663px-Dirc_van_Delft_-_The_Holy_Ghost_and_the_Seven_Deadly_Sins_-_Walters_W171110R_-_Full_Page.jpg



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George
 
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Reply Thu 5 Jan, 2017 10:29 am
English? Looks German or Dutch to me.
ehBeth
 
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Reply Thu 5 Jan, 2017 10:32 am
@George,
You've got it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Dirc_van_Delf

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The Masters of Dirc van Delf were a group of manuscript painters active in the Netherlands between 1400 and around 1410. The name has been appended to several unknown artists who together make up an important studio of illuminators, one of the first important ones known from fifteenth-century Holland. Their name is derived from the lavish work they did to illustrate devotional texts by Dirc van Delf, court chaplain to Albrecht of Bavaria from 1389 until 1404 in The Hague. The studio's artists combined with Dirc to play an important role in the new cultural life of the royal court in the Netherlands.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Thu 5 Jan, 2017 10:34 am
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:

Every letter looks the same. Such artistic writing is hard to appreciate.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Dirc_van_Delft_-_The_Holy_Ghost_and_the_Seven_Deadly_Sins_-_Walters_W171110R_-_Full_Page.jpg/663px-Dirc_van_Delft_-_The_Holy_Ghost_and_the_Seven_Deadly_Sins_-_Walters_W171110R_-_Full_Page.jpg/




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ehBeth
 
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Reply Thu 5 Jan, 2017 10:36 am
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:

Every letter looks the same.


errrr no

the letters are quite distinctively different
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timur
 
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Reply Thu 5 Jan, 2017 10:41 am
Oristar wrote:
Can you recognize the English on the "ancient" pic?


No, you cannot recognize the English as it is Dutch.

This is a work by a theology doctor, Dirc van delf, with paintings by the Masters.

The work (The Holy Ghost and the seven deadly sins) dates from the first decade of 1400 CE.
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