[ANSTHRLD] Period forms for place name <von Basel>

[Bob Wade]

Could not find help in Bahlow/Gentry.  s.n. Bas(e)ler is an undated entry "from the city of Basel".
 
The Blaeu Atlas http://www.library.ucla.edu/yrl/reference/maps/blaeu/ (A series of maps published from 16468) has the Latin form of the Province of Basel as <Basiliensis> but spells the city as <Baƒel>
http://www.library.ucla.edu/yrl/reference/maps/blaeu/zvrichgow.jpg  I believe that would make the normalized form of the period spelling <Bassel>.
 
Tostig

--- On Wed, 6/8/11, Jillian Birtciel <saintesun at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Jillian Birtciel <saintesun at gmail.com>
Subject: [ANSTHRLD] Period forms for place name <von Basel>
To: "Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <heralds at lists.ansteorra.org>
Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2011, 6:03 PM


Greetings!

I have a client wishing to register the name <Issac von Basel>.
Disregarding the given name for the moment, I believe the construction <von
X> is correct, according to some of my readings from the Medieval Names
Archive.  What we have not found yet is a vernacular spelling for the
town/University of Basel.  I did find this amazing print:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nuremberg_chronicles_-_BASILEA.png

with a Latinized form.  Does anyone know how to extrapolate, or have a
source for the city name on hand that we might pull from?  His persona is
that of a young Swiss/German in the mid 1500's.  I haven't looked up the
information yet, but there is a University of Basel as well, established mid
1400's, might that be a good source for a period place name?

Thankfully...
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Yours in Service,

~Jillian Saint Andre, OSTB

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