“I think that’s a ‘1’, not an ‘I’.” “Does this look like ‘yeeare’… or ‘ye eare’?” For five hours on March 8, 2017, transcribers buzzed and muttered as they bent over laptops. They were transcribing and encoding an early 17th century manuscript, the heavily illustrated Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608. Their work would eventually become part…
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