On 7 October 2015, over a hundred volunteer transcribers from across the globe worked together to create a complete keying of Folger Manuscript v.b.366, Rebeckah Winche’s recipe book. These pages served as home base for those who devoted their time to the project. A seventeenth-century recipe book. Twelve hours. 208 pages. And students from around … Continue reading Transcribathon 2015: The Winche Project
Transcribers The Winche manuscript was entirely transcribed (tripled-keyed) during our October 2015 transcribathon. The event took place at the Universities of Akron, Essex, Texas (Arlington) and Saskatchewan, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Huntington Library, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and elsewhere on planet earth! For a list of transcribers, go here. … Continue reading The Winche Project
By Jordan Ivie Rebeckah Winche’s receipt book (Folger Vb 366) includes three recipes on page 62 that relate to the King’s Evil, one that detects the malady and two that cure it. These recipes consist of many ingredients that seem strange to the modern reader, including the leg of a live toad, turpentine, and worms; … Continue reading Rebeckah Winche and The King’s Evil
By Rebecca Laroche Ninety-three transcribers! 208 pages triple-keyed! Tweets and stewed pigeons, chocolate and perfume, what a marvelous transcribathon we had! So what’s next? First, comes collation and vetting, as well as an answer to a question that has probably been burning for many of you: “Why so many keyings?” Having three keyings expedites and … Continue reading The Winche Manuscript: What’s Next?
5 November 2019Folger Manuscript V.b.400:Transcribing Anonymous Medicine Please join the Early Modern Recipe Online Collective (EMROC) for our fifth annual international Transcribathon, as we make an anonymous early modern medical recipe manuscript searchable for users around the globe. We will have transcription groups working in at least a dozen locations, on three continents, with individuals … Continue reading Transcribathon 2019: Folger V.b.400: An Anonymous Medical Text
