Principles of transcription

1. Maintain the original entry - carry out the transcription as faithfully as possible to the original, without correcting the writer's mistakes.
    
2. Lines of text - the transcription should be written in lines. If the word is divided between two lines, it should be written as in the original, that is, without connecting it.
    
3. Punctuation - all punctuation marks or others (e.g. commas, full stops, hyphens, etc.) appearing in the original should be ignored.
    
4. Writing capital letters - the mechanism recognises both small and capital letters as correct.
    
5. Letters with diacritic marks - if the text includes letters with diacritic marks, typical for the Polish language, we retain them.

 

You can find the full principles of transcription here.

Helpful tips

1. This document contains no contractions!
    
2. The only letter that the scribe wrote in two versions is y.

 

You will find more useful tips for transcribing old texts here.

Exercise 9

Model letters