Getting Ready for the Transcribathon!

02/11/2022Early Modern Recipes, Events, Posts, transcribathon, TranscribingPre-transcribathon surveylisasmith

It’s nearly #EMROCtranscribes day! I hope you’ve had a chance to listen to the introduction to Mary Hawker’s book and our wonderful speakers (Rachel Rich, Edith Snook and Tim Underhill), who bring some fascinating insights into working with recipes and recipe books. (Links to the recorded talks and registration for the speaker Q&A can be found in our previous post.)

In case you missed it, we also have a page that outlines how you can prepare for the transcribathon — such as setting up a FromThePage account or finding the sign-up for each page. The actual texts won’t open for transcription, however, until we kick things off at 11:00 GMT/7:00 EST on 4 November. The countdown is beginning…

One other thing that you could do, if you were so inclined, is to answer a little survey (no more than five minutes) so we can get a sense of our community members and your interests — it helps us to understand what you’re looking for in our transcribathons. Thank you!

We can’t wait to talk transcribing with you on Friday!

Come Join Us for Investigating Recipes Transcribathon (11/4)!

27/09/2022Posts17th Century Recipes, EMROC, Folger Shakespeare Library, Recipes, transcribathonhillarynunn

EMROC is excited to be partnering with the Wellcome Library and the Royal College of Physicians for its Fall transcribathon, set for November 4. We’ll be virtually celebrating EMROC’s tenth anniversary, and we invite you all to mark the occasion with transcription!

This year, we’ll be transcribing Mary Hawker’s manuscript (MS 9304) from the Wellcome Collection, and a collection of medical receipts and prescriptions (MS 502) from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) in London. The Folger will be providing support via the FromthePage transcription interface.

Experts on recipe manuscripts — Rachel Rich, Edith Snook, and Tim Underhill — will be onhand to discuss their video presentations on November 4 as well. Click here to register for their talks, and see the schedule for below.

To take part in transcribing, there’s no need to register in advance, but if you’d like to attend the November 4 talks from the Wellcome, please sign up here. This page will offer quick info on preparing to use FromThePage on the day.

To learn about Mary Hawker’s manuscript from the Wellcome, check out these links:

A video tour of the Hawker manuscript, including glimpses of foreign recipes, medicinal recipes, and edits to recipes.

To learn about the Royal College of Physicians MS 502, check out the RCP Transcribathon Page, where you can tour the manuscript and read up on snails in medical recipes. And while you’re at it, check out these blog posts from the Pamela Forde of the RCP:

PDF Version

Events:

7 AM EDT/ 4 AM PDT / 11 AM GMT: Transcription Begins! We’ll start the day out tweeting about what we find in the manuscript, and with tips for getting going. Get ready to transcribe here. Join us with the hashtags #EMROCTranscribes and #EMROCis10
11 AM EDT / 8 AM PDT / 3 PM GMT: Live Q&A with presenting scholars via Zoom link, available via the Wellcome Eventbrite page.

Rachel Rich, Leeds Beckett University, discussing her presentation What can menus tell us about recipes? The case of George III and the Kew Ledger (1788-1801)
Edith Snook, University of New Brunswick, on her presentation Seventeenth-Century English Turkey Recipes: Thinking Through an Anti-Colonial Approach
Tim Underhill, Independent scholar and early modern shorthand expert, on Mary Hawker’s Shorthand

12 PM EDT / 9 AM PDT / 4 PM GMT: Zoom Room opens. https://charlotte-edu.zoom.us/j/93082716535?pwd=YUJHS2MwcWVrT1lvOWZPQTVFd3hpdz09
Drop in to talk about the manuscript as you transcribe. We’ll be there to answer questions about transcription, chat about ingredients, and talk about early modern household practices. During this Zoom time, we’ll also launch the new Early Modern Studies Journal issue commemorating EMROC’s birthday.

3 PM EST / 12 PM PDT/ 7 PM GMT: Zoom Room closes

Fall 2022 Transcribathon Set for November 4: Investigating Early Modern Recipes

23/08/2022Postshillarynunn

EMROC is excited to be partnering with the Wellcome Library and the Royal College of Physicians for its Fall transcribathon, set for November 4. We’ll be celebrating EMROC’s tenth anniversary as we transcribe Mary Hawker’s manuscript from the Wellcome Collection, and a collection of medical receipts and prescriptions from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) in London. The Folger will be providing support via the FromthePage transcription interface.

A panel of virtual presentations is already scheduled – check it out at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transcribathon-2022-investigating-recipes-live-qa-session-online-tickets-389251801617 — and there’s much more to come. Stay tuned, but please know we’re looking forward to seeing you and your students there!

Spring 2022 Transcribathon: Grace Carteret’s Recipes

10/02/2022PostsGrace Carteret, Lady Ann Fanshawe, Ohio State University, Popular Culture and the Deep Past, transcribathon, Wellcome Collectionhillarynunn

11-12 February 2022
The Carteret Collection at the PCDP Conference

Come join us to transcribe the manuscript recipe book of Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville (1654-1744), housed at the Wellcome Collection!

This event brings together participants in The Ohio State University’s Popular Culture and the Deep Past conference, devoted to “The Experimental Archaeology of Medieval and Renaissance Food,” and transcribers from around the world joining in from their home and classroom computers.

We’ll be working to transcribe Lady Carteret’s recipe collection (Wellcome MS.8903) and its wide array of culinary and medical recipes. Participants in this event will be helping to make Carteret’s manuscript keyword searchable, and in that process they’ll help illustrate the overlap between Carteret’s book and that of Ann Fanshawe, whose recipe collection was part of last year’s EMROC transcribathon.

Click Here to Start Transcribing

Drop in any time — before, during, or after the event — and transcribe as long as you like! NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY – our webpages will help you through the coding and offer pointers on the handwriting.

Events on Saturday, February 12

9:30 EST: At the PCDP Conference? Come visit EMROC on Saturday in the Creative Arts Room at the Ohio Union. Chatting and questions welcome!
10:00 EST: Paper Presentation on learning to transcribe from University of Akron students Jasmine Beaulieu and Hannah Curtis, “Early Modern Recipe Transcription: The ‘Each One Teach One’ Method.” Join in person in the Ohio Room, or via Zoom here.

For more on the Carteret manuscript, check out detailed catalog record from the Wellcome.

Interested in joining our Transcribathon virtually? Contact Hillary Nunn, at nunn@uakron.edu, or just sign up to transcribe a page and jump in. Keep up with our events here on the EMROC webpage, and on Twitter.

We are grateful to the Folger Shakespeare Library for providing a customised transcription platform on FromthePage for this event. And we are so glad that OSU’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies has included us in the conference events.

Key links

Transcription FAQ and information about Getting Started with Transcription.

Sample transcription from the Cartet manuscript.

EMROC blog (for quick and dirty blog posts as things happen, as well as more thoughtful posts later)

Twitter (for those of us live-tweeting the event, at #EMROCtranscribes)

CFP: EMSJ to mark EMROC’s tenth year

13/09/2021PostsEarly Modern Studies Journal, EMSJhillarynunn

We are pleased to announce that Early Modern Studies Journal will be publishing a special issue entitled “Celebrating Ten Years of the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective.” We hope that you’ll consider submitting work to commemorate EMROC’s first decade of bringing together scholars, students and the general public in the preservation, transcription and analysis of recipes written in English from circa 1550-1800. Completed projects are due by February 1, 2022. For more details, please see this revised Call for Papers.

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