Early Modern Paleography - Folger Shakespeare Library

Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. [Folger
has an online subscription and a hard copy of new edition]
Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust. British History Online
(www.british-history.ac.uk/). [searches by place, subject, source, people, or full-text, across a
wide array of primary and secondary texts for medieval and modern English history, with
frequent additions of new source material]
May, Steven W. Elizabethan Poetry: a Bibliography and First-line Index of English Verse, 1559-
1603. 3 vols. New York and London: Continuum, 2004.
Milward, Rosemary. A Glossary of Household, Farming and Trade Terms from Probate
Inventories. Occasional Paper No. 1. Chesterfield: Derbyshire Record Society, 1977 (revised and
extended, 1993).
The Oxford English Dictionary, second edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.
The Victoria History of the Counties of England. London, 1900-present. [multiple volumes for
each county, indexes are useful for obscure place-names and family names]
Making sense of legal and official documents
Alcock, N.W. Old Title Deeds: A Guide for Family and Local Historians. Chichester, Sussex:
Phillimore & Co., Ltd., 1986.
Bischoff, Bernhard. Latin Paleography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, trans. Daibhi o Croinin
and David Ganz. Cambridge and New York, 1990. [pp. 150-168: abbreviations in high and later
middle ages]
Cappelli, Andreas. Dizionario di abbreviature latine ed italiane, 6 th ed. Milan, 1994.
Ellis, Mary. Using Manorial Records. Public Record Office Readers’ Guide No. 6. Kew: The
Public Record Office/The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, 1997.
Gooder, Eileen A. Latin for Local History. London: Longmans, 1963 (2 nd impression) [includes
transcriptions of local records, with translations, and select wordlist]
Hall, Hubert. A Formula Book of English Official Historical Documents. 2 vols. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1908.
Martin, Charles Trice. The Record Interpreter: a Collection of Abbreviations, Latin Words and
Names Used in English Historical Manuscripts and Records. Sussex: Phillimore & Co., Ltd.,
1982 (reprint of 2 nd ed., 1910).
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