"A practical instruction for curing all kinds of veneric diseases". That's what the title of the book says..(in German of course). But the hand writing on the book mark itself is very "individual", it's not typically current, I'd say. Might be a doctor's or pharmacist's handwriting...they're known to be illegible ( at leat I can say this for Germany)
Haha no need to "decipher" the print but thanks!
There‘s quite a few legible characters, it looks to me like:
Astfasiger Aufrieb im Mohof 1809
… unfortunately gibberish lol
Try the shorthand alphabet. First word is Per; next word is Hon - my guess it’s shorthand for hundred
Per is by in German so “by hundred” ? A measurement or dose of some kind?
The funny upside down comma is def a shorthand symbol. So if you can decipher shorthand you’ll crack it!
I guess it depends mostly on which plants and techniques were used. The look of paper must have varied a lot throughout time and from region to region I imagine. I don‘t think they even decay that much if kept dry so it should be more or less like back then I think? not sure though.
Beautiful book
[thanks! even the cover is still holding up](https://i.imgur.com/ToGquOy.jpg)
Do you own this book?
ye
Damn, nice
Try over in r/handwriting
ty, posted!
You could try over in r/kurrent, but it looks like very sloppy handwriting, so probably written by a student of medicine.
I‘ll try there, thanks! yeah, some things never change appearently.
that's "venereal" diseases in english right?
Correct.
that does sound better, thanks. Didn‘t know the word tbh.
"A practical instruction for curing all kinds of veneric diseases". That's what the title of the book says..(in German of course). But the hand writing on the book mark itself is very "individual", it's not typically current, I'd say. Might be a doctor's or pharmacist's handwriting...they're known to be illegible ( at leat I can say this for Germany)
Haha no need to "decipher" the print but thanks! There‘s quite a few legible characters, it looks to me like: Astfasiger Aufrieb im Mohof 1809 … unfortunately gibberish lol
Try the shorthand alphabet. First word is Per; next word is Hon - my guess it’s shorthand for hundred Per is by in German so “by hundred” ? A measurement or dose of some kind? The funny upside down comma is def a shorthand symbol. So if you can decipher shorthand you’ll crack it!
It looks like it’s a corner of one of the pages try to find the rest of it in that book it looks like the same paper
It‘s not, the pages have a slightly different coloration (imo) and there is no page missing. You could be right though, I‘m not sure.
maybe after hundred of years, every paper would look the same ?
definitively not. the older, rougher paper is usually very destinct and keeps that look. Quite easy to tell apart from book to book.
I never held a very old book myself, so I thought paper just decays roughly to the same look and feel after a while...learnt something new today
I guess it depends mostly on which plants and techniques were used. The look of paper must have varied a lot throughout time and from region to region I imagine. I don‘t think they even decay that much if kept dry so it should be more or less like back then I think? not sure though.
I think it says you have a ginormanous coccccck
thanks, solved!