英国约克大学Borthwick档案研究所
（网址：https://www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/）
近日，Borthwick档案研究所的古文字指南（Palaeography）免费公开了Reading the Past: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century English Handwriting的PDF版
（下载地址：https://www.york.ac.uk/media/borthwick/documents/publications/Reading%20the%20Past%20Sixteenth%20and%20Seventeenth%20Century%20English%20Handwriting.pdf）
这本40页的小册子介绍了近代早期英格兰手稿的阅读和转录方法
基础字母
常用缩写
原始手稿的目录
原始手稿与转录文字的对照
小册子末尾更详细的举例
工具书推荐
Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (Oxford, 2008)
This is the first Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology ever to be published. Dealing with the subject of documentation – which affects everyone’s lives (from every-day letters, notes, and shopping lists to far-reaching legal instruments, if not autograph literary masterpieces) – Peter Beal defines, in a lively and accessible style, some 1,500 terms relating to manuscripts and their production and use in Britain from 1450 to the present day.
The entries, which range in length from one line to nearly a hundred lines each, cover terms defining types of manuscript, their physical features and materials, writing implements, writing surfaces, scribes and other writing agents, scripts, postal markings, and seals, as well as subjects relating to literature, bibliography, archives, palaeography, the editing and printing of manuscripts, dating, conservation, and such fields as cartography, commerce, heraldry, law, and military and naval matters. The book includes 96 illustrations showing many of the features described.
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