Blackletter

Blackletter, also known as Gothic script or Gothic minuscule, was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 to 1500. It continued to be used for the German language until the 20th century. Fraktur is a notable script of this type, and sometimes the entire group of faces is known as Fraktur. Blackletter is sometimes called Old English, but it is not to be confused with the Old English language, despite the popular, though mistaken, belief that it was written with Blackletter. The Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) language pre-dates Blackletter by many centuries, and was itself written in the insular script.

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• Authors: Frederic P. Miller
• Assisted by: Agne F Vandome (Editor), John McBrewster (Editor), Frederic P. Miller (Editor), Agnes F. Vandome (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2010
• EAN: 9786130273651
• ISBN: 978-613-0-27365-1
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies