Roger Pearse on the ploys scholars use to keep interesting texts to themselves:Another ploy has been to have only German scholars work on it, and get them to do it a century ago in obscure publications, usually without translation. After all, if you provide a translation, who knows who might start looking at this stuff? It doesn’t bear thinking about.
Been there, several times, and from more than one direction.
Image: just a little Fraktur, not obscure at all.
Hey, I've been told that English-language works from the 16th and 17th century are unreadable, even in transcription. How mean am I that I assign document images from originals for my senior seminar students?
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