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Not quite medieval (1541) but please help me identify this English last will and testament, I'm utterly lost!
Posted 13th Apr 2026u/bruhyoufuckinfresh
Anyone know what ‘c’ this is?
Posted 12th Feb 2026u/ElliotVale1993
How old can this manuscript be, my guess is 12th-13th century but I need some expert opinions on it
Posted 9th Feb 2026u/Exotic_Quantity9042
Aiuto per scrittura e datazione
Posted 20th Jan 2026u/Dominus_scrup
Help me figure out how many different hands these marginal notes are in, pls!
Posted 15th Dec 2025u/CSMMADES
Ovid MS
Posted 7th Dec 2025u/bruhyoufuckinfresh
Help me understand these texts from Yugoslavia
Posted 10th Sep 2025u/PartIndependent185
Please help me read these documents from Yugoslavia.
Posted 5th Sep 2025u/PartIndependent185
When would you date it?
Posted 3rd Jul 2025u/WilhelmKyrieleis
Help with transcription - Anglo-Norman late 14th C.
Posted 20th Mar 2025u/Memesforgloryofussr
1609 French Letter on Velum
Posted 21st Feb 2025u/kellogg76
Please help with this marginal annotation at the end of a book of hours. It's either Latin or French.
Posted 8th Feb 2025u/FangYuanussy
Please help me read the title to this 15th century deed
Posted 16th Jan 2025u/FangYuanussy
Help reading text
Posted 12th Jan 2025u/MAX9277
Confused about shorthand letters-how to transcribe the q's with odd symbols?
Posted 6th Nov 2024u/BenjaminIsaacAstro
Are the first two letters of this text I and N (=> infestus), or something else?
Posted 2nd Nov 2024u/zara_von_p
I know this is a bit later than the Medieval period (it's from 1562), but I was hoping someone could please confirm the language (I believe it is French) and maybe transcribe a few words so I can use them as an example to figure out the rest of the document.
Posted 18th Sep 2024u/SeizureSalad215
Help with transcription
Posted 30th Jul 2024u/Memesforgloryofussr
Manuscript transcribed
Posted 5th Jul 2024u/novsof02
Mock-up of the Letter Patent reward for my village project.
Posted 11th Dec 2023u/TheTurnipOfTerror
Any experts know around the time this was made?
Posted 7th Dec 2023u/Numerous_Country_325
Beautiful artwork progress by Trent Shadurne on the Letter Patent reward for the Dinthwaite Kickstarter
Posted 3rd Dec 2023u/TheTurnipOfTerror
Scanned a letter I have from 1634, medieval french from about the Lille region. Cannot for the life of me read it. Is anyone able to decipher it?
Posted 21st Oct 2023u/ii_quizxy
The Art of the Doodle
Posted 2nd Oct 2023u/A_McLawliet
Document signed by Elizabeth 1st.
Posted 16th Sep 2023u/nikkinapalm87
Finished the first page of the manuscript I’m making.
Posted 5th Sep 2023u/A_McLawliet
Just a pretty book of hours from my collection, ca 1450
Posted 8th Aug 2023u/chimx
A friend of mine in Germany came a cross a small show of incunable books and manuscripts and I wanted to share!
Posted 6th Aug 2023u/A_McLawliet
Palaeography practice! Try to read the words (middle English) in the images and write your guesses in the comments
Posted 5th Aug 2023u/A_McLawliet
A question to everyone who sees this post, what’s your favourite type of manuscript?
Posted 3rd Aug 2023u/A_McLawliet
I'm back! Anyways, a list composed by Michelangelo containing the food he wanted his servant to buy him, because the servant was illiterate, he provided him with some illustrations.
Posted 2nd Aug 2023u/A_McLawliet
Transcription of a heading of a document
Posted 4th Jul 2023u/AcanthisittaObvious4
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