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 (fragments in grey should be omitted), omitting columns in the text.
    
3. Writing capital letters - the mechanism recognises both small and capital letters as correct.
    
4. Letters with diacritic marks - we should omit diacritic marks when deciphering, for example, we write ü as u.

 

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Helpful tips

1. There are no contractions in this document.
    
2. Please note that the scribe wrote two surnames partially in italics.
    
3. The scribe used two differing versions of the letters s, u and w and as many as three versions of the letter d.
    
4. The greatest difficulty may be caused by some letters which are characteristic for neo-Gothic writing, e.g. a, B, P and the letter x.
    
5. It is easy to confuse the letters e and n as well as h with the letters s and L. In the event of problems, use Model letters.

 

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Exercise 7

Model letters