File:Theban_alphabet_from_Polygraphia_1518_cleaned-up.png
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DescriptionTheban alphabet from Polygraphia 1518 cleaned-up.png |
English: This is the earliest known (1518) version of the Theban alphabet, used since then by occultists and Wiccans. The original text from https://www.loc.gov/item/32017914/ had legibility problems: (1) bleedthrough from the other side of the page; (2) missing pieces of characters from either the age of the book or incomplete inking of the plates; (3) off-register printing of the red-ink plate, resulting in red letters going too high on the page. Editor .Raven used GIMP to clean up these problems for easier reading of the original text and characters.
Note 1: the current ‘’’File:Theban.jpg’’’ is from a 1561 French translation of the work, rendering the last letter “w” as an ampersand (&), probably because “w” was a new letter and not familiar to those creating the French edition. Note 2: The original text is in public domain because the original author died over 400 years ago; for my own trivial contribution of clean-up, I waive copyright. — .Raven |
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Theban alphabet from ‘’Polygraphia’’ (1518) by Johannes Trithemius, cleaned-up
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current | 09:27, 6 March 2023 | ![]() | 1,422 × 550 (198 KB) | .Raven | Darken letter centers; fill in Theban “I” (the “n” shape before the “U” shape). |
08:36, 6 March 2023 | ![]() | 1,422 × 550 (195 KB) | .Raven | Minor extension (completion) of stroke in Theban letter “v” to match other depictions | |
07:12, 6 March 2023 | ![]() | 1,422 × 550 (195 KB) | .Raven | Uploaded own work with UploadWizard |
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