tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post4637781538527520577..comments2024-03-27T21:39:27.170-07:00Comments on The Adventures of Notorious Ph.D., Girl Scholar: Getting My Groove Back: TranscriptionNotorious Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08700875559325201086noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-21904557370739449392010-06-21T03:27:43.734-07:002010-06-21T03:27:43.734-07:00I learned to read 16th century hands in the school...I learned to read 16th century hands in the school of hard knocks. My first day in the archives I got through maybe ten lines. It did get better. But I still cry sometimes at some of the German and Dutch hands that I encounter. Someone can be cheerily writing away in a sloppy but legible humanist script (in Latin), and then they mention a German name and write it in German script--awful!Brian W. Ogilviehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05045133494402037781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-51645503635617039232010-06-18T13:56:50.649-07:002010-06-18T13:56:50.649-07:00I feel your pain, sister. When i wrote my undergra...I feel your pain, sister. When i wrote my undergraduate thesis, I had to do all of my own Greek and Latin translations. Oh how I remember the pain.<br /><br />Best of luck!Castorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08419436230443084437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-22664889093517833332010-06-18T02:07:38.263-07:002010-06-18T02:07:38.263-07:00it is "Conjunction Junction" for me... :...it is "Conjunction Junction" for me... :)Grad School Dramahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14310488702945996991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-69171979984099992812010-06-17T21:53:13.383-07:002010-06-17T21:53:13.383-07:00Never had a paleography class, and chancery hands ...Never had a paleography class, and chancery hands still are very hard for me to read. Good 16/17 century secretary hands, on the other hand, are a piece of cake!Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716705206734059708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-9406265552934344192010-06-17T20:47:08.887-07:002010-06-17T20:47:08.887-07:00Anon, you did better than I. After the first hour...Anon, you did better than I. After the first hour and a half staring dumbly at documents, I turned the registers back in, went home, and cried a little.Notorious Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08700875559325201086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-61493777850382565482010-06-17T20:26:18.852-07:002010-06-17T20:26:18.852-07:00I do the early sixteenth century in France, and ne...I do the early sixteenth century in France, and never had a chance to take a paleography course, despite going to one of the top grad programs in the field. So I learned how to read the three different scribal hands, as well as the personal ones, via photocopies of 19th century transcriptions of correspondence from the era. This was after spending THREE hours to figure out one line of text on my first day at the BN :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-61462733236057685712010-06-17T17:16:46.044-07:002010-06-17T17:16:46.044-07:00Jeezus motherfuck! You gotta lotta fucking patienc...Jeezus motherfuck! You gotta lotta fucking patience, NPD. I would last about five minutes with that shit before giving up and hitting the MFJ.Comrade PhysioProfhttp://physioprof.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-79877564133637997052010-06-17T11:36:12.279-07:002010-06-17T11:36:12.279-07:00If anyone wants to get a look at the above mention...If anyone wants to get a look at the above mentioned Lexicon Abbreviaturarum, it is online <a href="http://www.hist.msu.ru/Departments/Medieval/Cappelli/index.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://inkunabeln.ub.uni-koeln.de/vdibProduction/handapparat/nachs_w/cappelli/cappelli.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Clemens Radlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16195221834681715517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-25363717991507588232010-06-17T10:40:37.594-07:002010-06-17T10:40:37.594-07:00Also delightful: trying to extend your work from o...Also delightful: trying to extend your work from one century to another in which scripts can be significantly different. I can make something of 14th-century scripts, but 15th-century notarial scripts are beasts.clio's disciplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13640279322691564414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-25547222852181606462010-06-17T10:01:09.177-07:002010-06-17T10:01:09.177-07:00I never took a palaeography class, and I deeply re...I never took a palaeography class, and I deeply regret it. My mentor never suggested it to her students; she just assumed we'd figure it out in the archives. To a great extent, I did, but I still struggle with certain texts.squadratomagicohttp://squadratomagico.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-56735275727529172532010-06-17T09:51:36.909-07:002010-06-17T09:51:36.909-07:00Sounds fascinating, good luck!Sounds fascinating, good luck!Jordan Kerrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17303532843052785382noreply@blogger.com