[Ansteorra] Renaissance handwriting

[christine hall]

At least these documents are in English.  I took a seminar last month in 
the Palaeography (which is what this class is) but of the Medieval 
Period.  We were looking mostly at Latin, but some old english 
documents, some full of abbreviations to the point where only every 
fifth word was spelled out completely.  This website offers you an 
abbreviation guide, as well as some other resources...all in all as soon 
as i have some liesure time, I plan on seeing how well I can do in this 
course.

-=Kris=-
Elaine Crittenden wrote:

>Thanks for sharing the site. Great place for those with a deep sense of 
>curiosity about everything written in Period.
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>Interesting online course. Gives a whole new look and aspect as to what the
>SCA might use for documents. Might be useful for writing "passports" when
>one kingdom's gentle goes to another kingdom and wants to be greeted in an
>official way. The problem would be in finding a recipient in the visited
>kingdom who could read the information as written in the styles offered for
>study in this UK course.
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>Of what is shown, this course seems to be about transcribing the information
>in the document into a modern interpretation. Apparently, you are to look at
>each lesson's document,figure out what the writer was saying, then write
>your own transcription in the provided area with the provided tool bar.
>Granted, mine was only a perfunctory glance, but are you to do this with no
>prior training? I am assuming that some reply will be sent back as to how
>accurate you are?
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>It looks like the 28 lesson course is divided into many levels of rated
>difficulty, the last really needing a dedicated scholar. Abbreviations are
>included in the documents. Interpreting them correctly could be difficult
>and might need intuition if a guide is not available. Was it one of Drogin's
>books that gave a short page of common abbreviations?
>
>All in all, you are right when you say it is a course of paleography rather
>than calligraphy how-to. It is interesting, and I have marked it for going
>back and looking at more closely, even though it has only a place of
>curiosity for me, as a practicing scribe (mundanely as well as for the SCA).
>When I am commissioned, I am required to execute pieces more comfortable for
>those with current eyes. I wouldn't think these are, but then you never
>know. ;-)
>
>Thanks again,
>HL Lete Bithespring
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>>Subject: [Ansteorra] Renaissance handwriting
>>Date: Sun THJan 9,2005,10:48 PM
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>> Greetings!-
>>            Insomnia sometimes turns up some wonderful
>>websites. This one has to do with palaeography in the
>>english rennaisance.
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>>http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/
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>>Thought I'd share it with everyone. For those of you
>>who are into caliigraphy it isn't exactly calligraphy
>>or illumination but it does have a lot of images
>>scanned directly from period documents.
>>                                 -Xanthe
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