Professor Amy Tigner
Office Carlisle 622; Office Hours T/Th 11 am-12 pm, and by appointment
Summer 1 Intensive: June 8-23; M-TH 1-5:00 pm
English 6330: Early Modern Paleography, Manuscripts, and the Archives
This compressed 2 week + 2 days-long course is designed to provide an intensive introduction to handwriting in early modern England, with a particular emphasis on the English secretary, italic, and mixed hand of the 16th- and 17th-centuries. The first part of the course will concentrate on learning the alphabets, common abbreviations, and numbers and learning transcription conventions. Then we will work with manuscripts in the Welcome Library and the Folger Shakespeare Library collections. We will be using both Textual Communities database, which is housed at the University of Saskatchewan, and the Folger’s new transcription software program Dromio to transcribe receipt books (that is cookbooks and recipe books with both culinary and medicinal recipes). The class will be part of the EMROC (Early Modern Recipe Online Collective) to transcribe and make early modern receipt books available to the public through open access software. This class is also one of the first classes to liaise with the Folger library to contribute to Early Modern Manuscripts Online or EMMO. The skills learned in this class will enable students to work in both real and virtual early modern archives.
| Date | Class Activities and Readings | Assignments |
| M. 6/8 | Class Overview
Manuscript conventions Alphabets: Italic and Secretary Abbreviations Measurements: Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe: Between Market and Laboratory, Ursula Klein and E. C. Spary Money http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng240/early_english_currency.htm Apothecary symbols http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/docs/dox/medical.html Semi-diplomatic conventions For a short explanation of the long “s” and a few other things paleographic see: http://resobscura.blogspot.com/2013/07/why-does-s-look-like-f-how-to-read.html |
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| T. 6/9 | Quiz: alphabets, abbreviations, measurements, and symbols
Beginning transcriptions exercises Cambridge Handwriting Site: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/ Reading Early Modern Recipes |
Reading: Introduction to Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650
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| W 6/10 | Quiz: transcriptions
Cambridge Handwriting Site exercises XML and Textual Community Conventions Wellcome Library Joul Smith lecture on XML and TC
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Reading: Field “Many hands hands…”
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| Th 6/11 | Short test: alphabets, abbreviations, measurements, and symbols; transcriptions
Manuscript technology: Ink, Pen, and Paper https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/intro/inkrecipes.html We will have a hands-on handwriting workshop (You might want to wear old clothes or an apron) You will also need to buy your quill, ink, and parchment from me, so please bring $8.00 cash to class. |
Reading: DiMeo and Laroche “Oil of Swallows”
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| M. 6/15 | Transcriptions: Wellcome and Folger Libraries
Textual Communities and Dromio Catherine Morphis lecture on recipes and research |
Critical Response paper: 500 words
Reading: Goldstein “How to eat a book: Ann Fanshawe and manuscript recipe culture” DiMeo “Authorship and medical networks: reading attributions in early modern manuscript recipe books” |
| T. 6/16 | Quiz: Transcriptions
Transcriptions: Textual Communities and Dromio |
Readings: Leong and Pennell: “Recipe Collections and Medical Knowledge”
Alonso-Almeida “Genre convention in English recipes 1600-1800”
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| W. 6/17 | Quiz: Transcriptions
Transcriptions: Textual Communities and Dromio |
Reading: Lehmann, “Reading recipe books and culinary history: opening a new field”
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| Th 6/18 | Weekly test: Transcriptions
Transcriptions: Textual Communities and Dromio Cooking with Renaissance Recipes Review for Exam |
Reading: Archer “‘The
Quintessence of Wit’: poems and recipes in early modern women’s writing.”
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| M. 6/22 | Transcriptions
Review for Exam |
Critical Response paper: 500 words
Reading: Gray “‘A practical art’: an archaeological perspective on the use of recipe books”
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| T. 6/23 | Final Exam | Final Exam |
This syllabus is subject to change by the instructor.
Evaluation:
Transcriptions: 30%
Critical Response papers: 10%
Quizzes and Short tests: 30%
Final Exam: 30%
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