Medieval Handwriting
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About Medieval Handwriting
The origins of this app lie in online exercises in palaeography developed for postgraduate students in the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds in West Yorkshire, U.K. The aim is to provide practice in the transcription of a wide range of medieval hands, from the twelfth to the late fifteenth century. Please note that it is not a tutorial on the development of handwriting in medieval western Europe.
Users can examine 26 selected manuscripts, zoom in on individual words, attempt transcription and receive immediate feedback. They can optionally compare their transcription with a full transcript. The user's transcripts can be saved and reopened. The saved transcripts are accessible via File Manager apps.
Users can examine 26 selected manuscripts, zoom in on individual words, attempt transcription and receive immediate feedback. They can optionally compare their transcription with a full transcript. The user's transcripts can be saved and reopened. The saved transcripts are accessible via File Manager apps.
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Minor bug fixes.
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What are users saying about Medieval Handwriting
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I would really like to use this app. However, the images are so magnified and blurred that I cannot read anything, and trying to zoom out does not work. Sometimes when I double tap a specific word will hover over the page, and it is clearly readable, but nothing is reliable. There is no feedback option in the app for me to contact the developer for help either.
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Beautiful and interesting.
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Beautiful and interesting.
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Why the web exists
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For those in need to study and interpret this period documents, this app is truly useful. Thanks to the creators.
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This is really an amazing app. Thank You!
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I'm loving this app. It's teaching me so so much.
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Would be awesome to use the Note 4 and Note tablets for this with the S pen.
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I usual transcribe 19-20th c. writing however I've found this app a lot of fun.
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Beautiful and interesting.
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This app is easy to use, informative and fun!
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Thank you so much! Ive been looking for an awesome medieval app like this for ages!
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Lots of fun! I quite enjoy it.
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This app is easy to use, informative and fun!
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This app is easy to use, informative and fun!
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What a wonderful tool.
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I love this app, I'm a huge medieval nerd and to actually read and transcript pieces from the middle ages on the go is perfect! I just wish you can read the documents in full, since most is blurred out by gray. Perhaps if we pay, you'd unlock it? Cause surely I'd be willing to dish out some cash to be able to read it in whole! Thanks for the awesome app!