Team William
Team William
Editorial history
23/08/12: CSG, created page
Contents
Suggested links
Team Colin
Team Giovanni/Patrizia
Team Jill
MarineLives-Transcript: Team William
Tasks for the week
Week commencing 20th August 2012
Week commencing 30th August 2012
Week commencing 3rd September 2012
Tips from team members
Will Kellett - 27/8/2012 - After having a look at some sample documents, I thought it would be worth noting some common problems with certain letters (mainly due to their confusion with modern equivalents) - notably 'R' which, when not in capital form, almost always looks like a modern 'w' as well as 's' (which occurs most regularly with 'saith') which often looks like a modern ' f '.
Tips for documents in Team William Week One
These are some tips to help you with practicing on the documents in 'Team William Week One' which contain the HCA 13/71 f.51r P1130303 all the way up to HCA 13/71 f.59v P1130320.
If you look through these documents you will see that we are essentially dealing with two different hands being used in different folios.
The first two documents on the list represent the more difficult, very cursive, 'spidery' hand.
If you go to the last document you will see a smaller and much more manageable hand.
I will put some tips here for the first of the hands we can see in these documents as it is the more difficult, but if anybody would like some tips regarding the other hand then do not hesitate to ask me. If you double click on this text you should be able to edit it and put questions if you have any!
Firstly this clerk's 'h's are very, very loose.
Here is an example of 'Hee':
In addition the 's's are very loose and not fully formed. We can also see in this word, 'saith' how his 'a's are sometimes also not quite fully joined up, which can make them difficult to distinguish from other vowels. So bear this in mind:
The clerk in this case also seems to use the sign for 'th' for 'ch' as well. See here for 'w(hi)ch':
Another point to make about this clerk's hand is letters like 'c' and 'o' are also frequently left half formed as we can see in 'second'.
Queries from team members
Message from Colin to William
- Sat., 25/08/12: I have posted ten images from HCA 13/71 to http://www.Marinelives-transcript.org which you may wish to use for your own practice and with your team during the training week (w/c 3rd Sept.)
- HCA 13/71 f.51r to HCA 13/71 f.55v (P1130303 to P1130312)
- Of the above posted images:
- HCA 13/71 f.53r First cut transcription completed; requires assistance on some spellings and on missing words
- HCA 13/71 f.53v First cut transcription completed, requires assistance with some spellings. Note a number of interlineal insertions on this manuscript page
