Dave Postles wrote:
>Since I almost certainly misremembered, let me give the URLs after checking:
http://www.le.ac.uk/elh/pot/wsussex/wsussex.html
http://www.le.ac.uk/elh/pot/medfram.html
goodness, Dave, that's quite a site.
congratulations.
and, it looks like almost *no* labor went into it, either.
howsabout poppin cross the channel your next bank holiday and scanning in a
few hundred Eure-et-Loir charters?
i've often thought that the reason why "later" hands are impossible for
me to read is not so much that i have to learn what new the letter-forms
mean, but that i have to *un*learn the forms which mean one thing in the
earlier (or later, printed) periods and something quite altogether different
in the later period.
like buttoning your shirt with the hand you are not used to doing it
with.
now, i can see how palaeographically challenged i really am with the simple
click of a rat.
btw, what's the "Toolbox"?
best from here,
christopher
>I don't know if I've mentioned this before and it is probably of no
consequence whatsoever, but West Sussex Record Office and I are working
together to produce a website for medieval English charters. [There have been
two stimuli: (a) my version of Toolbook is old and so I am
abandoning Toolbook; and (b) Richard Childs, the County Archivist, who knows
me to his misfortune from the past, and his colleagues have very kindly
provided (and are providing) high resolution .jpgs of charters]. What we are
doing is creating imagemaps of the charters, so that the
transcription of each word and brief notes, appear in the
status bar of the web browser at the foot. In some cases, clicking on
the word links to a more detailed file (grammar/syntax) -- this is indicated
also in the status bar ('click for more info.). The actual images can be
viewed from .... for there are links here to files on contractions etc (with
images, no less).
>To date, we have one charter completed and we are now working on another. A
word of caution is that the image files are _very_ large, because we wanted to
have images which were really useful for the learning process.
>This site would have been the poorer without the collaboration with the West
Sussex Record Office to whom I am absolutely indebted. There is a link,
therefore, from the imagemap pages to the WSRO and, if you have any positive
feedback, I'm sure it would be appreciated by Richard Childs and his
colleagues at WSRO who have invested so much time and expertise in this
venture.
____________________________________________________________________
Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|