Early Modern German Paleography

One of the things I struggle with is reading old hand writing. I ran across this really interesting paper written by a fellow who appears to be working on building a program that you can use to transcribe old hand written records, specifically German ones. There are hands from Capitalus quadrata all the way to Kurrentschrift used in the 1700's, with the standard alphabet, the handwritten one derived from the text, a sample block of text and the transcription of it, along with a nice bibliographic record for said text.

Gerold Ritter: Lector - Transkription von mittelalterlichen Quellentexten computergestützt üben: Ein Unterrichtsprogramm für angehende HistorikerInnen, Liz. Zürich 1992.
Its at the bottom of this page.
http://www.e-hist.ch/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4&Itemid=14


PDF pages 50-57 have samples of text, and alphabets for various German script hands from 1480 and 1550.
PDF pages 63-66 has the numbers and abbreviations for weights.
PDF page 69 has the abbreviations for some other weights and measures
PDF pages 73-77 has the common abbreviations for words and symbols.