Medieval_palaeography

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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

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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