[MR] ISO how to check age and authanticity of a medieval manuscript?

[Cian Conor MacQuaid]

> Try someone, probably at a university, who is an expert in medieval 
> German. Prior to the 16th C (and, indeed, to some extent through the 
> 20th C), German was a language of multiple local dialects, among 2 
> major dialects: low German in the North and High German (which became 
> modern German) in the south.
> Davitt il Bigollo da Pisa


It is in fact still a language of multiple dialects, whether Schwabian, 
Hessen or Platte. Fraktur, the formal script, is a challenge sometimes 
even if you would understand the words. :-)

Cian