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Christoph Nahr  
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 More options Feb 25 1999, 3:00 am
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From: cn...@seemysig.invalid (Christoph Nahr)
Date: 1999/02/25
Subject: Re: Old typefaces - request
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On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:40:29 -0000, "Ralph Hancock"

<hanc...@dircon.co.uk> wrote:
>The actual 'ß' sign is quite old, having been used for 'ss' (or rather, long
>s + short s) in the handwriting of the Italian Renaissance.  I think its
>adoption to represent the Fraktur esszett is fairly recent, though, probably
>in the early decades of this century.

Are you saying that the printers who adopted the Fraktur eszett for
Antiqua typefaces had been looking at Renaissance handwritings rather
than their own recent Fraktur prints?  Do you have any sources for
that claim?  I must admit that it sounds rather far-fetched to me.

As for when this adoption took place, I'm not sure about it either but
looking at my book shelf I find an 1855 Antiqua print where the eszett
is rendered as double-s, and prints from 1908 and later which have an
Antiqua rendition of the esszett.  So the adoption most likely
happened in the second half of the 19th century.
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Chris Nahr (cnahr@ibmnet, insert dot after ibm to reply by e-mail)
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