Krakow and nearby

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The letters to look for are the g (with a long curved tail, a down-pointing oval loop, and a lowered serif on the right) and the shape of the "h" (with a rounded rather than pointed hump, with a long back-flowing descender). Those seem to be good indicators of similarity.

The letters m, p, and r are quite common. The 116v writer did those much the same as everyone else. The "t" is unusual, it leans in a way that is not common.


And the one to particularly look for is the figure-8 final-ess. That's not common. I've only found a few. Most scribes use Greek sigma or a "B" shape for the final-ess (very common). In Italy they would often use the snake-shape (a modern "s") or sometimes even the long-ess as final-ess. But figure-8 ess is the least common.