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Palaeography

Online tutorials about reading very old documents. For background information about Palaeography see Wikipedia:Palaeography.

The National Archives:

English Handwriting 1500-1700
Scottish Handwriting.com, 1500-1700
- Downloadable self-help pack
Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer Website, How to Read Medieval Handwriting (Paleography)
http://paleo.anglo-norman.org/ - broken link (Was to a Leicester University web site.)
Sweet Roman Hand: 500 Years of Italic Cursive Script https://archive.org/details/detalisman0000scot/page/27/mode/1up

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Michael Cayley

The last link - to palaeo.anglo-norman.org - is, alas, dead, and I cannot locate a replacement. It appears not to have been archived by Wayback Machine.

I have updated the link to the National Archives Latin course.

This page on medieval handwriting might be a useful addition. https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/how-read-medieval-handwriting-paleography

posted Jun 29, 2023 by Michael Cayley
edited Jun 29, 2023 by Michael Cayley

Rick Pierpont

Thank you. I marked the broken link as broken and added the Harvard link.

posted Jun 29, 2023 by Rick Pierpont