{"id":333,"date":"2025-08-22T05:31:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/?page_id=333"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:59:41","slug":"weird-old-england","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/weird-old-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird Old England"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Handwriting, legal writing, shorthand, and ciphers; paleography of Elizabethan England<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Secretary Alphabet model from BAILDON (John) & BEAUCHESNE (Jean de),\u00a0A booke containing diverse sortes of hands<\/em>, 1571<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taken from the website Penna Volans<\/a> containing links to several centuries of European handwriting manuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

William Hill’s Commonplace Book<\/a> [early 17th century]. Found in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Jane Segar\u2019s \u2018Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibylls\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Handwriting, legal writing, shorthand, and ciphers; paleography of Elizabethan England The Secretary Alphabet model from BAILDON (John) & BEAUCHESNE (Jean de),\u00a0A booke containing diverse sortes of hands, 1571. Taken from the website Penna Volans containing links to several centuries of European handwriting manuals. William Hill’s Commonplace Book [early 17th century]. Found in the Beinecke Rare […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2399,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/333\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}