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The lesson sheet, which was first of vellum and later of paper, were typically inscribed with a large cross, [n 3] followed by alphabet letters, [n 4] numbers and in later version, short verse. [13] Hornbooks displayed letters of the alphabet, a syllabary and prayers for novice readers.
Anglo-Saxon runes or Anglo-Frisian runes are runes that were used by the Anglo-Saxons and Medieval Frisians (collectively called Anglo-Frisians) as an alphabet in their native writing system, recording both Old English and Old Frisian (Old English: rūna, ᚱᚢᚾᚪ, "rune").
Pages in category "18th-century fires" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Great fire of Tartu; Great New Orleans Fire (1788)
In Danish texts composed in Fraktur, the letter ø was already preferred to the German and Swedish ö in the 16th century. [ c ] In the Latvian variant of Fraktur, used mainly until the 1920s, there are additional characters used to denote Latvian letters with diacritical marks .
The order of the letters of the alphabet is attested from the 14th century BC in the town of Ugarit on Syria's northern coast. [23] Tablets found there bear over one thousand cuneiform signs, but these signs are not Babylonian and there are only thirty distinct characters. About twelve of the tablets have the signs set out in alphabetic order.
The long s is the basis of the first half of the grapheme of the German alphabet ligature letter ß , [3] (eszett or scharfes s, 'sharp s'). As with other letters, the long s may have a variant appearance depending on typeface: ſ , ſ , ſ , ſ .
The scribal letter known as textur or textualis, produced by the strong gothic spirit of blackletter from the hands of German area scribes, served as the model for the first text types. Johannes Gutenberg, around 1450, invented a lead type mold, applied it to an alphabet of about 24 characters, and used known press technology to print ink on ...
A more serious fire occurred in August 1612, which destroyed 600 houses. Smaller fires subsequently broke out in 1676, 1726 and 1730. [2] Later fires followed the one in 1731, and in total over 530 houses were destroyed by fire in the 18th century. [3] The fire in 1731 started on 5 June at approximately 6pm at a baker's house in Gold Street.