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[Facts] Re: Rosemitha/Rosemithe/Rosemite/Rosemitte?
by
elbowin
2/27/2013, 12:49 AM
in reply to
a message by Issendai
It looks like
Roswitha
with the replacement w_>m. Maybe it comes from misreading the name
Roswitha
written in Fraktur (german blackletter script) where the small letters w and m look very similar.
In Google Books it is a frequent scanning/OCR error.
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