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Okay, but what does it mean, or how do you regularize an early modern transcription?
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Okay, but what does it mean, or how do you regularize an early modern transcription?

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Paul Dingman

As one reader guessed, the phrase shown in last week’s Crocodile mystery image is in secretary hand, i.e., a type of handwritten script widely used in the British Isles (and elsewhere in Europe) during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As transcribed…

Announcing EMMO's Beta Launch
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Announcing EMMO's Beta Launch

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Heather Wolfe Paul Dingman Sarah Powell

To kick off the new year at Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO), the EMMO team (Paul Dingman, Mike Poston, Sarah Powell, Caitlin Rizzo & Heather Wolfe, with additional thanks to Rebecca Niles) is thrilled to announce the launch of our…

Unlocking An Early Modern Account Book
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Unlocking An Early Modern Account Book

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Paul Dingman

The answer to last week’s Crocodile mystery is, as some of you guessed, £135 15s 0d (or 135 pounds, 15 shillings). This amount is a snippet of one entry made on a page in Folger MS V.b.308, the account book of…

Tagging manuscripts: how much is too much?
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Tagging manuscripts: how much is too much?

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Paul Dingman

When it comes to the subject of tagging or encoding manuscript transcriptions in XML (extensible markup language) for Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO), two important questions are how much should we tag and when should we do it. With thousands…

V, u/v, and library transcription rules
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V, u/v, and library transcription rules

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Erin Blake

You know the saying, “the great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from?” You know Sarah’s post about the transcription practices used in The Collation, and Goran’s posts about V and U in titles and…

u/v, i/j, and transcribing other early modern textual oddities
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u/v, i/j, and transcribing other early modern textual oddities

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Sarah Werner

When you’re encountering early modern texts for the first time, you might be surprised not only that they use such variable spelling (heart? hart? harte?) but they seem to use the wrong letters in some places. And then there are…

An exercise in collaborative editing: Anthony Bagot's letters and Nathaniel Bacon's pirate depositions
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An exercise in collaborative editing: Anthony Bagot's letters and Nathaniel Bacon's pirate depositions

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Heather Wolfe

As part of their paleography training, my paleography students always spend a bit of each afternoon working in pairs on transcriptions. It gives them a break from being in the “spotlight” as we go around the room reading manuscripts line…