Dr David Rundle

Absolutely. I tell my students what I notice every year: errors, when they appear, often are at the start, fewer in the middle, then more towards the end. That is because at the start you have not yet got your eye in, then you start to get it, but when you work too long, you get cross-eyed!

On this last point, I always add - switch off auto-correct: if you let it do its damnedest, it will lose you marks!

+ So, if your tutor prefers square brackets to mark expanded contractions but you say you are going to use round, they cannot take a mark of you - as long (and this is crucial) you are consistent.

Great idea to post this here! My @memsunikent.bsky.social students will be thanking you. I'll add a couple of suggestions below. Here just one thought:
preface your transcription with your set of conventions - they define not just your practice but how you can be marked. +

In which we discuss oyster shells and candles, pigments and what to do when you have a hole in your parchment:

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Hope you have as much fun as we did recording this!

Yes, in the same vein as Ursus nomine Paddington. Winnie ille Pu remains the best, I humbly submit.

It can but dream.

Yes, this does look odd. Why *is* that ticket machine pretending to be a piece of luggage?

What this says: we teach much more than tools for a job, we teach skills for life as a citizen.

That was fun: recorded a podcast this morning for English Heritage on medieval manuscripts, with their curator Susan Harrsion, expertly guided by host @amyfmatthews.bsky.social . I'll be interested to hear how it sounds...

Even funnier when you translate it into Latin:

iamne aestas? interrogavit Pu
minime, Februarius remanet, ait Porcellus
tristissime fututu, dixit Pu.

At least, it tickled me.

This is very exciting news and I am sure @memsunikent.bsky.social will want to celebrate. Great cover, but hope the subliminal messaging is not that all the time cooped up with the typescript has given you Stockholm syndrome!

Not just the UK press:

www.corriere.it/esteri/26_fe...

11th-century? Is this then, @uk.theconversation.com, an earlier St Francis than the one who discussed in the article who died 800 years ago? Or did you calculate 800 back from when you were writing this post which must then have been in 1826? Is this evidence the internet is much older than assumed?

+ Given the proximity of book stalls to the Abbey, this could be one place in the country where they bought in parchment rather than had it made on their estates, but that is mere speculation.

Hello, @lucyallengoss.bsky.social - hope all is well with you! I have been scratching my head on this one. I cannot remember a record of this and there is nothing in Barbara Harvey's Living and Dying. I have not had chance to look at the ed of the accounts by her and Chris Woolgar. +

Answer: don't try to shove everything in. After all, you know so much more than could ever appear in one chapter or one book. Trust the reader to trust you know your stuff. It will be clear.

We would need to see more but looks to me that the scribe is writing at speed, with the attitude that the first letters can give the meaning, the last can look after themselves. So, either would work, though the 'a' needed for -tio ending is missing.

Yes - it will be 'et maynteneme(nt)um'.

But the prefix is surely the Greek for all, so we should call them omnicakes.

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Don't forget this CFP cmtc.queens.ox.ac.uk/call-for-pap...

But that font...

I think they may have misunderstood the campaigning tradition of having a list of people to knock up on election day.

A twist of lemon should be reserved for one thing: the pre-Lenten G&T before the pancakes.

Misread that verb as trapeze which would be very tiring.

Given how long I have spent in the same room with it, I could write a tale: The Wig and I.

Sympathy: overly abbreviated but will be 'sup(r)ascr(iptum) teste(m) Robert(um) Conardi'.

Altum quinque. (@magdalenoxford.bsky.social MS. lat. 109).

Sleepy books.