Penn Manuscript Transcription

Works

Work title	Progress	Most recent activity
Contemplations moral and divine / by a person of great learning and judgment.	395 pages; 3% complete (1% indexed, 3% transcribed)	11/07/2023 at 07:33 PM
Elegies; [manuscript].	93 pages; 100% complete (59% indexed, 100% transcribed)	06/12/2020 at 04:19 PM
Julia, or The revengeful lover. A tragedy; [manuscript].	137 pages; 100% complete (48% indexed, 100% transcribed)	06/12/2020 at 03:24 PM
Letters historical and gallant from two ladies of quality to each other; [manuscript].	443 pages; 88% complete (2% indexed, 92% transcribed, 3% needs review)	02/16/2023 at 05:42 PM
Opusculos varios [Challenging - Spanish and some Latin]	421 pages; 82% complete (9% indexed, 98% transcribed, 15% needs review)	02/17/2022 at 09:49 PM
Poems; [manuscript] /; by the late Baroness Ferdinand Hompesch.	293 pages; 100% complete (33% indexed, 100% transcribed)	12/17/2020 at 04:17 PM
Select pieces &c.; [manuscript].	135 pages; 71% complete (13% indexed, 71% transcribed)	10/10/2020 at 03:02 PM
Standing orders for the garrison of Fort St. George; [manuscript].	137 pages; 95% complete (42% indexed, 96% transcribed)	08/27/2020 at 05:31 PM
The Ganges Canal; [manuscript].	2201 pages; 38% complete (1% indexed, 39% transcribed)	05/25/2022 at 09:42 PM
[Commonplace book]; [manuscript].	81 pages; 100% complete (4% indexed, 100% transcribed)	08/27/2020 at 05:32 PM
[Minutes and records of the Guardians]; [manuscript].	253 pages; 100% complete (24% indexed, 100% transcribed)	07/23/2020 at 11:54 AM

Transcription Conventions

Spelling: Maintain original spelling (including u/v, i/j, and ff). Long "s" should be replaced with a regular "s". Terminal long "i" characters are transcribed as "i" not "j".
Hyphenation: Preserve hyphens (including "=" characters) at the ends of lines.
Capitalization: Maintain original
Punctuation: Add modern periods, but don't add punctuation like commas and apostrophes.
Deletions: Deleted characters and words are tagged with "strike" and then displayed with the line through them.
Symbols: For apothecary and alchemical symbols, use these symbols followed by the meaning of the symbol in brackets: Rx [recipe]; ℈ [scruple]; ʒ [dram]; ʒs [half dram]; ℥ [ounce]; ℥s [half ounce]; ℔ [pound].
For roman numerals following symbols that indicate amount, i.e., j=1, ij=2, iij= 3, v=5, type arabic numeral in brackets following roman numeral: i [1], ii [2], iii [3], v [5].
Line Breaks: Hit return once after each line ends. Two returns indicate a new paragraph, which is usually indentation following the preceding sentence in the original. The times at the end of each entry should get their own paragraph, since the software does not support indentation in the transcriptions.
Illegible text: Indicate illegible readings in single square brackets: [Dr?]
A single newline indicates a line-break in the original document, and will not appear as a break in the text in some views or exports. Two newlines indicate a paragraph, and will appear as a paragraph break in all views.