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16th century Latin (England) Transcription/Translation of Recipe for Braggot
I study how mead was made (and what it tasted like!) before about 1750 CE. I am not a linguist, and acknowledge my rudimentary knowledge of Latin grammar/tenses/etc. (learning all the time).
I’m ...
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Transcribing Latin with or without ligatures -- is there an agreed convention
I'm working on the transcription of some late seventeenth century English Manorial Court Rolls in Latin. They're heavily abbreviated.
In some places the scribe has visibly written a ligature in e.g. ...
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Translating words in a Manorial Court Roll of 1699
The proceedings in Manorial Courts in England before 1733 were recorded in Latin. I'm currently transcribing and translating a set of such documents dated 1699 (to the best to my ability -- I last ...
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Has anybody encountered this abbreviation/spelling before?
I need help transcribing the word in the red box: has anybody ever encountered this abbreviation/spelling before? Could anybody point me towards a resource that answers my question? I've looked in ...
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What are the Latin lyrics to Ringo Starr's "Pax Um Biscum (Peace Be With You)"
Happy Christmastime everyone! Being this time of year I pulled out one of my favorite Christmas records, which is Ringo Starr's I Wanna Be Santa Claus. The last track of the album is called "...
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Encoding abbreviated 'quod' in Unicode
This example comes from a 16th century treatise printed in Poland.
It's known from a published transcription that it means 'quod'. The question is what is the last character of the abbreviation.
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Transcription of 3 latin lines in Dutch medieval manuscript
Hi Latin Stackexchange
for my masters thesis I am transcribing a 16th century Dutch manuscript about alchemy.
On folio 172r there are some Latin words and a Latin sentence.
Can someone help me ...
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How should I best present the title of this mathematical work written in Latin?
In this answer to the Space Exploration SE question Who called the Lagrangian points as “Libration” points and and why was the terminology “Libration” used? I have recently written the following:
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Is the Abrahamic god ever named in Classical-era Latin or Greek?
As far as I'm aware, the Septuagint, New Testament, and Vulgata never directly transcribe the Tetragrammaton (יהוה) into Greek or Latin: they substitute in words like κύριος/dominus "lord" or θεός/...
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Trouble transcribing a line of Latin from Codex Claromontanus
I am trying to transcribe Hebrews 6 from Codex Claromontanus, but am unable to decipher two lines from verse 1:
Source: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84683111/f907.item (see halfway down the ...
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What are the conventions for transcribing Semitic languages into Latin?
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Latin definitely had contact with Semitic languages over the course of its existence, most notably Punic. When words and names from these languages were transcribed into ...
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What are the conventions for transcribing Semitic languages into Greek?
The surviving Koine Greek corpus contains quite a lot of transcribed Semitic words, borrowed from Hebrew, Aramaic, and maybe others. (For example, the LXX is full of Hebrew names.)
Were there ...
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Does any Greek word have a geminate consonant after a long vowel?
I recently noticed a pattern in loans from Hebrew into Greek: the letter šin (or sin, or łin if you're really archaic) is transcribed σσ after a short vowel, σ elsewhere.
My knowledge of Classical ...
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Request to convert name into Latin
Kindly anyone change the name in Latin form please.
Name:
Hafiz Muhammad Umer Jahagir
Please translate it into Latin.
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Help with paleography in a 16th century grant
I'm transcribing/translating a 16th century document relating to my ancestors, but struggling with a few words. One in particular is proving difficult - the contracted last word on the 1st line of the ...
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More on the 'honorificabilitudinitatibus' citation
An early dictionary fits the longest word in Latin into a hexameter. In a previous question Expedito Bipes introduced this astonishing dictionary entry (1286), (and then later gave an alternative ...
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