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Websites
On Manuscripts, Pen and Ink
British Library, “How to make a medieval manuscript,” https://www.bl.uk/medieval-english-french-manuscripts/articles/how-to-make-a-medieval-manuscript
Elmer Eusman, “Iron Gall Ink Ingredients,”The Iron Gall Ink Website, 1998, https://irongallink.org/iron-gall-ink-ingredients.html
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On Paleography (Reading and Interpreting Handwriting)
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Exhibition: Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800 (2020)
* Exhibition Brochure (PDF)
* Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800 (20 videos)
Folger Library, List of online resources for early modern English paleography, https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/List_of_online_resources_for_early_modern_English_paleography
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Foster, Joseph, Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire (London: the compiler, 1874), https://archive.org/details/pedigreesofcount02fost/
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Especially:
Roy Military Survey Viewer, Lowland Map (1752)
Pont Maps of Scotland, ca. 1583-1614
Scotlands Places, https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk, a collection of historical records, including estate maps (Parkhall), tax records of Torphichen in the 1690s, and more.
William Hill, Notebook. England, early 17th c. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Osborn b234: Secretary Hand alphabet, p. 3; Drawing of hand with pen, 1656, p. 12-13
Yale University, Beinecke Library Collections, English Paleography: Examples, https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/english-paleography
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Ancestry.com
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