Rob MacKillop écrit:
David Hill has completed his paraphrases to Dowland's The First Booke
of Songs - which I am delighted to say is now downloadable from the
John Dowland website:
Thanks for this. I'm quite surprised by the very first sentence:
"The use of f for s has been replaced without comment"
The f isn't used for s. These are two different letters, the f and the
so-called "long s", despite their ressemblance.
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
The long 's' is subject to confusion with the lower case or minuscule 'f',
sometimes even having an 'f'-like nub at its middle, but on the left side
only, in various kinds of Roman typeface and in blackletter. There was no
nub in its italic typeform, which gave the stroke a descender curling to
the leftnot possible with the other typeforms mentioned without kerning.
Dennis
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