| Charter of Ralph de Cuningburgh to the Abbey of Byland (British Library, add. charter 70691). All images by permission of the British Library. |
| The following are a selection of useful charter words drawn from the example. If you can remember these, you are halfway to cracking any similar document. |
| About the best thing you can do now is work through the text, word by word, with the transcript. Try your own if you're feeling brave, and check it against ours. |
|
| overview | seal | text | alphabet | abbreviations | structure | exercises | | transcript | translation | |
| Click on each of the above to walk your way through the text. The transcript will appear in a separate window so that you can use it for reference at any time. These exercises are designed to guide you through the text, not test you, so you can cheat as much as you like. |
 |
 Script sample for this example |
|
Index
of Exercises |
|
Index
of Scripts |
|
If you are looking at this page without frames, there is more information about medieval writing to be found by going to the home page (framed) or the site map (no frames). |
 |