Cool! Translating Middle English Script

[fabrisse]

I've been doing some work at www.shakespearesworld.org. There are a whole bunch of letters and recipes (squee!) which have been uploaded as pdfs, and they need people to transcribe the pages. I've done several recipes today, but find the Cromwellian script more difficult than the earlier ones.

I found out about it at The Guardian.

Comments

[tediousandbrief.livejournal.com]

Ooo! That sounds cool!

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

I've done a few during my down moments. Try a few.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

I can see this is going to be just like the time the New York Public Library put all those vintage menus up for crowdsourced transcription. I'm going to spend so much time there...

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

I hated translating the medical recipe that started with instructions to drown a puppy. :-( But overall, this has been way cool.