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Here are images of a leaves from five very plain devotional books of the 15th and early 16th centuries. The familiar texts provide an easy way to adapt to the scripts and the shorthand conventions of the scribes. Most of the enlarged images contain transcriptions and translations that can be visualized by rolling the mouse over the left and right margins respectively.

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15th century Italian psalter: 3 leaves

14th century Office for the Dead: 1 leaf

15th century French psalter: 1 leaf

The scribe-school dropout (SSD) bifolium

16th century printed psalter: 6 leaves

 And two larger leaves:

from the Book of Jeremiah

15th century legal [?] text from a book binding

And two sets of miscellaneous documents from England and Spain 

13th to 15th century Yorkshire land grants with links to palaegraphy sites.

14th and 15th century Castilian documents

 

ABBREVIATIONS AND CONTRACTIONS: SOURCES 

CAPPELLI: Lexicon Abbreviaturarum.

HECTOR: The Handwriting of English Documents

THOMPSON: Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography

JOHNSON & JENKINSON: The English Court Hand