F66r question

[-JKP-]

I was wondering whether the "plain text" was written by the scribe, who didn't understand the language he was writing. After all, we have no evidence he wrote German.
How else could you cock up a double 's' so badly?

Yes, the "ess" is slightly strange. I was thinking it might be because it is so small, but the other letters are mostly normal.

So, if it is someone not accustomed to that style of final-ess, then perhaps it was written by someone who usually used another form (or another alphabet like Cyrillic or Greek).

The B-shaped final-ess was used in many places but there were regions where they used several forms.

In Spain they tended to use a snake-shaped final-ess and sometimes a straight-ess.

In Italy they used more than one style, sometimes sigma-shaped, sometimes straight-ess, sometimes long-ess.

I have some samples from Slavic countries, but I can't remember which form of final-ess was more common in eastern Europe. I will have to look in my files.

Overall, the text looks Bohemian (Bohemia was much bigger in those days and included parts of Austria, Germany, northern Italy but I can't remember the exact extent).