{"id":331,"date":"2011-07-12T18:42:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T15:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.helsinki.fi\/kaislani\/?p=331"},"modified":"2019-04-09T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T19:53:00","slug":"woo-palaeography-argh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/2011\/07\/12\/woo-palaeography-argh\/","title":{"rendered":"Woo, palaeography! (argh)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-696\" src=\"http:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Man.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Man.png 642w, https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Man-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m transcribing bits of documents I photographed at the Staffordshire Record Office and the William Salt Library in Stafford last September. Most of the docs are older than the ones I usually deal with, which means I have to struggle a bit to read the handwriting. Today&#8217;s post is a celebration of the idiocy of features of hands and scripts, and a puzzle for you, dear reader (dear spambot? dear me?):<\/p>\n<p>What is the <em>second<\/em> word in the phrase in the image above?<\/p>\n<p>Tip: the partly deleted phrase reads &#8220;Stafford | [something] | Stalbroke&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Well, whaddayouknow, it most certainly does not read something like &#8220;ajan~&#8221; or &#8220;azan~&#8221; (or even &#8220;again&#8221;). In fact it says &#8220;Man~&#8221; for &#8216;Manor&#8217;. So the first letter is a capital M &#8211; with a tail (quite common), but with a very curved first stroke which inhibits ready comprehension (by me, anyway).<\/p>\n<p>Argh. Paleaography. Argh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m transcribing bits of documents I photographed at the Staffordshire Record Office and the William Salt Library in Stafford last September. Most of the docs are older than the ones I usually deal with, which means I have to struggle a bit to read the handwriting. Today&#8217;s post is a celebration of the idiocy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,41,46,54],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aside","tag-argh","tag-manuscripts","tag-palaeography","tag-rant","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}