Littera elongata

Certificate of Otto the Great proclaiming the establishment of an Archdiocese of Magdeburg from the year 968. The writing which differs from the rest of the text at the beginning (initiation line) and at the end (signature line) of the document text is clearly recognizable; the ruler monogram within the signum line

When littera elongata ( lat. For "extended writing") is one since the Carolingian period used typeface in the form of an elongated version of the diplomatic minuscule that in the Signum and Rekognitionszeile getting started in the Intitulationszeile and at the end of medieval charters is to be found.

Web links

• Thomas Engelke: Documentation . In: Mathias Kluge (Hrsg.): Mittelliche-geschichte.de (on the littera elongata under 3.)
• Example with explanation on the website of the Baden-Wuerttemberg State Archives (under document grid font )
• Elongata * .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .