{"id":26,"date":"2008-01-06T11:46:22","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T11:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/?p=26"},"modified":"2008-01-06T11:47:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T11:47:09","slug":"deciphering-old-handwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/2008\/01\/deciphering-old-handwriting\/","title":{"rendered":"Deciphering old handwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The handwriting in Anna Maria Van Cooten&#8217;s will was fairly hard to decipher. The copy I received was a register copy, and thus it was written in a copyist&#8217;s script, rather than Anna Maria&#8217;s handwriting. There&#8217;s a really good site at the British National Archives about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/palaeography\/\">Palaeography: reading old handwriting 1500 &#8211; 1800<\/a> that provides valuable assistance in reading the text. In fact the script in the register copy of Anna Maria&#8217;s will was very similar to the cursive script in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/palaeography\/doc2\/default.htm\">Document 2<\/a> in the set of tutorial documents. This script is also very similar to the script in the register copy of Hendrik Van Cooten&#8217;s will that I obtained from the UK National Archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The handwriting in Anna Maria Van Cooten&#8217;s will was fairly hard to decipher. The copy I received was a register copy, and thus it was written in a copyist&#8217;s script, rather than Anna Maria&#8217;s handwriting. There&#8217;s a really good site <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/2008\/01\/deciphering-old-handwriting\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}