g.j.hilton
historian of renaissance & em scenography: the material, manufacturers & manufacturing of magnificence & spectacle - intermezzi, machines, feasts, gardens. 🖤 burgundy
(2025-7) pivot: msc bweh, edinburgh medical school
whitby, n.yorks because: goth
- Same, anonymous Hoccleve scribe, same.
- Misread this pretty catastrophically. Should probably rest my eyes.
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- Same.
- Tonight I am (again) polishing up my endless transcription of a supporting document for @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social . Of the twenty words in the present sentence I have needed to gloss fourteen in case any of our readers are not c18th Orcadian conveyancing solicitors.
- M[ar]cadye or M[ac]cadye. Empcyons = emptions = purchases Pravycyns = provisions. You guys are so smart and so generous it's really a privilege to learn from you. Thank you.
- Friday: time for my weekly self abasement as I bare my shameful #paleoography "skills" & try #skystorians patience with pleas for rescue again! 🗃️ 1) surname: I read 'M-something-cadye' but WAT? 2) Page title: 'Empcyans & pravycyn' - I'm talking total gibberish. ('howse' is clear though)
- Friday: time for my weekly self abasement as I bare my shameful #paleoography "skills" & try #skystorians patience with pleas for rescue again! 🗃️ 1) surname: I read 'M-something-cadye' but WAT? 2) Page title: 'Empcyans & pravycyn' - I'm talking total gibberish. ('howse' is clear though)
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