Aaron Allen

Freelance Work Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…

#MedievalSky #EarlyModernists you may not be aware that I offer several services: transcription (no hand too tricky), archival visits and more. I’m happiest in the period 1200-1700 but will consider anything. Get in touch via my website!

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And two more clues (Wikipedia Commons) – can you guess the theme of this year’s two (!) SRS volumes now? {I_ l _ n _ s} The volumes range from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, and will, of course, be sent out to members, so why not join the Society? www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk/membership/

We are delighted to share that Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance by @bryonycoombs.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the Walpole Society’s Berger Prize.

Congratulations Bryony! ✨

Discover the book: https://edin.ac/4f1GX2Q 

Find out more about the prize: https://edin.ac/42MBWH5

(3/3) Importantly, Agnes had to sign the Incorporation’s sederunt book to get the money, leaving not only an elegant signature, suggestive of literacy, but also a evocative and personal connection to her life in the seventeenth-century Scottish capital. #SurgeonsProject

Corporate Charity for ‘the House’: Craft Pensions and the Widows’ Fund, 1670–1782 | The Scottish Historical Review This article focuses on charitable provision for craft widows and the development of new ways of meeting the challenges of caring for them. The craft guild was an important part of Europe’s urban soci...

(2/3) Recent work on craft widows’ pensions has shown that corporate charity was not a given, but depended wholly on corporate means and the widow’s reputation. doi.org/10.3366/shr.... #SurgeonsProject

(1/3) On 13th December 1670, a surgeon’s widow, Agnes Urquhart, was given 20 shillings (sterling, rather than Scots) in charity from her late husband’s Incorporation. Intriguingly, this was under condition she, ‘never…truble them again’. #SurgeonsProject

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

This is a reflex testing hammer used by doctors to test reflexes. Testing for reflexes is an important part of the neurological physical examination in order to detect abnormalities in the central or peripheral nervous system.

FAO @1722waggonway.bsky.social

#OTD (30 Sept) c.1717, #Cockenzie wright (carpenter) William Dickson recorded the well known mnemonic rhyme, ‘Thirty Days Hath September’, to help him record business transactions on the Winton Estate, such as building Scotland’s first (wooden) railway in 1722. www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

#OTD (30 Sept) 1528, John Foular, notary, registered a sasine for John Symson, heir to the late Michael Symson, burgess of #Edinburgh, for a land lying on the south side of the High Street, in the vennel of Forrester’s Wynd. Map: maps.nls.uk/towns/rec/211 SRS: www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

Shipping case noted in TNA SP84/50 f.69, mentions the 'Sampson of Olre'

Would anyone know where 'Olre' in Holland was/is? John Johnston was master and owner of the Sampson of Olre in Holland, carrying oil, salt, wine, & Spanish money in 1593.

Petitioning the Justiciary Court in Restoration Scotland, 1660–88 Scholars have long recognized that petitioning played a central role in early modern political systems. Analysis of the practice, particularly in a British context, has tended to emphasize its func...

My latest article, 'Petitioning the Justiciary Court in Restoration Scotland', has now been published online, and far sooner than I expected. Enjoy (!) my musings on petitioning, political engagement, and the judicial system in 17th century Scotland: doi.org/10.1080/0260...

The final talk in the second of Royal Marriages Summit series bit.ly/4lifqMO will be delivered by Dr Michael Pearce who will be discussing the marriage of James V of Scotland to Marie of Guise – an important part of the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France.

Registration for our Annual Conference is now open!

If you're interested in all things history of education, we'd love to have you with us!

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So Capoelli mentions an Sz Tironian note which means s[ed] - Latin got ‘but’, which in Scots usage means ‘in addition to’. That makes the math and syntax work… Thank you for putting the focus on the Tironian angle - huge help!

Thank you - most reassuring!

Absolutely! Nice.

Here’s a ~similar one from another document.

Yeah - it’s the tail which makes me worried!

That’s what I’m thinking - do you think I’m off base with the ampersand? Thank you!

Problem is the ‘t’ and the math being off by one unit then. Otherwise tame would be good.

Any thoughts on the possible ampersand and insertion mark @michaelpearce.bsky.social ? Thank you all!

Here's another example of his insertion mark - '||', though I'm struggling to find a similar ampersand in this document. As it isn't my transcription (helping with an SRS volume) I haven't seen every page. @estaitis.bsky.social @rodlyall.bsky.social

Item for xv chopyins of ule till our lamp [& ane?] fra Johne Malesoun the soum / viij pynts the price of the pynt xd the soum vjs iijd
FAO @estaitis.bsky.social @rodlyall.bsky.social

Full page here. Note the math suggests 'ane' as a chopin is half a pint. They bought 15 chopins; had one donated; ended up with 16 chopins or 8 pints, but it only cost them 7 and a half shillings at 10 pence the pint (5d off for the donation) FAO: @estaitis.bsky.social @rodlyall.bsky.social

This one is on my phone - it’s a different scribe/document, but a similar & before ‘Willmo’

I’ll post a page or two! Thank you!

Graveyard Guardians: showcasing Govan's Archaeology and Natural Heritage Govan Heritage Trust is hoping you can help us raise £10,000 for a project that will transform the future of the Govan Stones and Govan Old. We're raising money for a 2-year initiative that will showc

I would be endlessly grateful if you were to support this crucial fundraising effort for Govan Old's 1,500-year-old graveyard and the @govanstones.bsky.social museum! 💲❤️

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Thank you - will send it tomorrow!