EMROC has shifted its transcribathon to Spring for this year, and we’re excited to announce our theme, “Women’s Health, Women’s Handbooks.” The date is set for March 14, 2025, and we’ll have an exciting program for those taking part both in-person and online. We’re working with Wellcome Collection and the Royal College of Physicians on the details, and we’ll have more to announce soon.

Anyone can attend, and anyone can transcribe. We’ll have support, both virtually and in person, for those learning transcription. We welcome students, instructors, scholars and anyone else who is interested in early modern recipe manuscripts — and the medical and culinary recipes they contain — to join in!

This year, we’ll be working to transcribe RCP MS688, A Book of surgerie and phisick, and Wellcome MS 373 (at right), and Jane Jackson’s A very shorte and compendious Methode of Phisicke and  Chirurgery.

Stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks!