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Teach yourself palaeography : a guide for genealogists and local historians / Claire Jarvis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK : The History Press, 2022Description: 153 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0750998776
  • 9780750998772
Subject(s):
Contents:
The nineteenth and eighteenth centuries -- The later seventeenth century -- The sixteenth century: records in English -- The sixteenth century: records in Latin -- Court hands -- Answers to exercises -- Appendix A: Glossary -- Appendix B: Transcription conventions -- Appendix C: Typical letter forms -- Appendix D: Marks of abbreviation, punctuation and correction -- Appendix E: Numbers, numerals, money and dates.
Summary: "This is the very first 'teach yourself' book on palaeography, covering all the skills that the genealogist needs to read any document that might be found at any date in English archives. Taking the form of a series of graded exercises in transcription, it works backwards in time from the modern handwriting of the nineteenth century in easy stages to the 'court hands' of the medieval period, focusing on records that are of particular interest to family and local historians. It also provides a unique, self-contained reference guide to palaeography, and to all the different letter forms, symbols and abbreviations that have ever been used in English records"--Amazon.com.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 411.7 J38 Available heavy water damage in second half of book. 9/5/2023 33111011037344
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 411.7 J38 Available 33111010958235
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This is the very first 'teach yourself' book on palaeography, covering all the skills that the genealogist needs to read any document that might be found at any date in English archives. Taking the form of a series of graded exercises in transcription, it works backwards in time from the modern handwriting of the nineteenth century in easy stages to the 'court hands' of the medieval period, focusing on records that are of particular interest to family and local historians. It also provides a unique, self-contained reference guide to palaeography, and to all the different letter forms, symbols and abbreviations that have ever been used in English records.

Includes bibliographical references.

"This is the very first 'teach yourself' book on palaeography, covering all the skills that the genealogist needs to read any document that might be found at any date in English archives. Taking the form of a series of graded exercises in transcription, it works backwards in time from the modern handwriting of the nineteenth century in easy stages to the 'court hands' of the medieval period, focusing on records that are of particular interest to family and local historians. It also provides a unique, self-contained reference guide to palaeography, and to all the different letter forms, symbols and abbreviations that have ever been used in English records"--Amazon.com.

The nineteenth and eighteenth centuries -- The later seventeenth century -- The sixteenth century: records in English -- The sixteenth century: records in Latin -- Court hands -- Answers to exercises -- Appendix A: Glossary -- Appendix B: Transcription conventions -- Appendix C: Typical letter forms -- Appendix D: Marks of abbreviation, punctuation and correction -- Appendix E: Numbers, numerals, money and dates.

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