About This Project

This project draws on a collection of Fraktur that are held in the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Fraktur Collection. This remarkable collection is fully digitized and publicly available online on the Free Library’s website. Many of the Fraktur in this collection were donated by famed Fraktur collector and researcher, Henry S. Borneman, who published the first scholarly work on Fraktur in 1937, Pennsylvania German Illuminated Manuscripts: A Classification of Fraktur-Scriften and An Inquiry in their History and Art.

This project began as part of the coursework for a class in George Mason University’s Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate.