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2 unusual facts about blackletter


Stroop Report

It was a typed document, bound in black pebble leather, with over 50 photographs accompanied by hand-written Gothic script captions.

Upleadon

A rare Blackletter Bible printed in 1613 is on display in a case within the church.


Days in Europa

Initially released with an Aryan album cover reminiscent of the 1936 Olympics, complete with Germanic gothic-style lettering, this was quickly withdrawn and a new cover designed.

Greysteil

H - Unique copy owned by the Huntington Library of a 1687 blackletter Eger, similar to L.

Parish ale

On the beam of a screen in the church of Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, is the following inscription in raised blackletter on a scroll held by two angels: "This cost is the bachelers made by ales thesn be ther med."


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