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paleography links
May. 21st, 2006 07:34 pmThough I'm busy between quarters this go round, I've found myself some spare moments to practice reading old handwriting. I find paleography interesting because I anticipate that at some point my interest in history will point me towards original sources, and fortune favors the prepared. That, and it seems I seldom meet text that I don't like, so it's in my interest to be able to wade through Secretary, Chancery, and the like.
Turns out lots of tutorials and sample scripts can be found online, of varying ease/quality:
English Handwriting 1500-1700 an online course is probably the best I've found so far, with options for writing and viewing a full transcript and taking a test at the end.
The UK National Archives' Palaeography: reading old handwriting 1500- 1800: A practical online tutorial is good but a little frustrating; it gives context and tips for each sample document but if you get stuck there's no option for viewing a complete transcripted line - you have to keep hammering at it. Payoff for costume geeks: document 9, "Check list of items sent with Thomas Jennynges to boarding school, 1585", lists fun stuff like "one newe dublett and a payer of hose fustian" and the like.
http://paleo.anglo-norman.org/ divides their content into medieval and early modern, both so full of links that I've not had a chance to go through them.
Medieval Writing tutorials in English, French, and Latin. This guy has a good sense of humor. I'm surprised that I remember enough high school French to make sense out of some of this.
Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies offers summer institutes in several languages, none of which I'm remotely qualified for, but I include for completion's sake. They also offer linkage to other sites.
Handwriting and language at Medievalgenealogy.org.uk has a handful of useful links.
Tangential: received my copy of The Inventory of Henry VIII (already transcripted, thank [insert deity of choice], because he had a lot of stuff :P). Dry in the reading but pretty damn cool in the details.
Yeah, yeah, I haven't done a Kalamazoo post yet.
Turns out lots of tutorials and sample scripts can be found online, of varying ease/quality:
English Handwriting 1500-1700 an online course is probably the best I've found so far, with options for writing and viewing a full transcript and taking a test at the end.
The UK National Archives' Palaeography: reading old handwriting 1500- 1800: A practical online tutorial is good but a little frustrating; it gives context and tips for each sample document but if you get stuck there's no option for viewing a complete transcripted line - you have to keep hammering at it. Payoff for costume geeks: document 9, "Check list of items sent with Thomas Jennynges to boarding school, 1585", lists fun stuff like "one newe dublett and a payer of hose fustian" and the like.
http://paleo.anglo-norman.org/ divides their content into medieval and early modern, both so full of links that I've not had a chance to go through them.
Medieval Writing tutorials in English, French, and Latin. This guy has a good sense of humor. I'm surprised that I remember enough high school French to make sense out of some of this.
Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies offers summer institutes in several languages, none of which I'm remotely qualified for, but I include for completion's sake. They also offer linkage to other sites.
Handwriting and language at Medievalgenealogy.org.uk has a handful of useful links.
Tangential: received my copy of The Inventory of Henry VIII (already transcripted, thank [insert deity of choice], because he had a lot of stuff :P). Dry in the reading but pretty damn cool in the details.
Yeah, yeah, I haven't done a Kalamazoo post yet.
