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Documents > Frakturs, documents

Preferred term

Frakturs, documents  

Definition

  • Documents, of Pennsylvania Dutch origin and common in the 18th and 19th cs., often family records such as birth certificates, decorated in a particular style of calligraphy and illumination [AAT]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Fracturs, documents
  • Fraktur art
  • Fraktur drawings
  • Fraktur illuminations
  • Fraktur paintings

Notation

  • 122082

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-PN9KVHNP-S

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