Featured Vintage handwriting- about what?

Hi all,found this interesting thing at a charity shop. Tried to translate it but didn’t get very far. Something about letters. What are these cards? Possible age?The frame itself is 24x44cm. Thank you for any reply.

 

The decoration of those fancy initials is called Cadel flourishing.

 

I appreciate the information. Thank you

 

I can show you what Google translate gave me. Some of it might make sense and some of it not. I tried it several times and got different translations on the last one. LOL.
EDIT and PS: the Google text reader does not recognize and pick up the last word of the first card. XVII

 

Cut from a book, possibly? Someone saved the fancy bits and maybe discarded pieces the mice munched. We're probably missing most of the text.

 

Meant something to someone. Clearly notices that have been pinned up. And framed some time ago.

Debora

 

A valiant effort.

 

Much appreciated. Great effort. Interesting so maybe something relating to financial matters/records
or such. Thank you for taking the time.
PS: I got the last word ‘brieffe’ as meaning’letter’

 

Agreed!

 

Thanks.Does look like cards/notices that were on a noticeboard at some stage.

 

Could I suppose also be. Maybe then from a account records book or ledger? Thanks for the comment

 

Think they're a bit too old for noticeboards which are a modern invention. These were nailed to something, a wall or door perhaps. Someone sure to come alone and be able to read and then perhaps their usage will be revealed.

Debora

 

'Ceffion' should read 'Cession'.

I read LVIII as: Kauft Cession und Wechset Briefte, for which IM Translator gives me: Buys cession and bills of exchange. Wikipedia tells me: The act of cession is the assignment of property to another entity. In international law it commonly refers to land transferred by treaty.

 

Maybe labels off storage crates.

 

Very interesting indeed. Thank you much for the information and for commenting.

 

Aha! That would explain all the tack marks around the edges and corners.

 

It would be wild if someone went to that much effort to make a pretty label for paper storage.

 

Might happen if they were in some kind of official archive. The lowest number here is 17, the highest 500. That's a lot of records if true.

These framed remnants are obviously about the calligraphy.

Can you tell if the labels are on laid paper?

 

It's old Hoch Deutsch script. Rechnung means bill or invoice, they're all basically types of business correspondence. They also look to be land and property related, legal. I'd suspect filing labels from a lawyer's office. Some of it is abbreviations, which isn't helping me, but I can also see Kammer which means room.

Hm.

It's a bit weird.

XVII. Sausserliche which means saucy (!) in modern German. Then First and Confirmations Letters.

LVIII. Conveyancing and Bills of Exchange. That's the closest equivalent to Kauft Cession.

Last one is tricksy. The something (abbreviation) of Wine two more abbreviations Room and below that I can make out Rechnung as that middle word. The last one looks like Sachen which means stuff.

Lord, German is bad enough in modern script, I alway did fight the older.

 

Archive makes sense. Organization signage.

Debora