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Re: Rosemitha/Rosemithe/Rosemite/Rosemitte?
It looks like Roswitha with the replacement w_>m. Maybe it comes from misreading the name Roswitha written in Fraktur (german blackletter script) where the small letters w and m look very similar.In Google Books it is a frequent scanning/OCR error.
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