Acquittance of 1383, from the collection of Rob Schäfer. All images © Rob Schäfer. |
Right, now you've done some of the easy bits, have a go at transcribing the whole document. Go to the text page. Use a pen and paper. Then check your transcript against ours. If you really think that we are wrong, do let us know (nicely!). |
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Index of Exercises |
Index of Scripts |
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