How to Decipher and Study Old Documents
by Emma Elizabeth Thoyts
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About this eBook
- Author
- Thoyts, Emma Elizabeth, 1860-1949
- Title
- The Key to the Family Deed Chest: How to Decipher and Study Old Documents Being a Guide to the Reading of Ancient Manuscripts
- Original Publication
- United Kingdom: Elliot Stock,1903.
- Credits
- Karin Spence and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- CD: History: Diplomatics, Archives, Seals
- Subject
- Paleography -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 67771
- Release Date
- April 4, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.Untitled
- 3.HOW TO DECIPHER AND STUDY OLD DOCUMENTS
- 4.PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
- 5.AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
- 6.Untitled
- 7.CONTENTS.
- 8.Untitled
- 9.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 10.INTRODUCTION.
- 11.Untitled
- 12.CHAPTER I. HINTS TO BEGINNERS.
- 13.CHAPTER II. HANDWRITING.
- 14.CHAPTER III. ANGLO-SAXON, NORMAN-FRENCH, LATIN, AND OLD ENGLISH.
- 15.CHAPTER IV. OLD DEEDS.
- 16.CHAPTER V. LAW TECHNICALITIES.
- 17.CHAPTER VI. MANOR AND COURT ROLLS.
- 18.CHAPTER VII. MONASTIC CHARTERS.
- 19.CHAPTER VIII. PARISH REGISTERS.
- 20.CHAPTER IX. PARISH OFFICERS AND THEIR BOOKS.
- 21.CHAPTER X. BOOKS ON PALEOGRAPHY AND KINDRED SUBJECTS.
- 22.CHAPTER XI. OLD LETTERS.
- 23.CHAPTER XII. ABBREVIATIONS, ETC.
- 24.APPENDIX. LEGAL MEMORY. ( See page 42 . ) — FOOTNOTES:
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