You! Can Learn English Secretary Hand From Home

YouTube
June 5 2020
English
Moving Image
Heather Wolfe, Bibliographical Society of America
In this video recording Heather Wolfe, Curator of Manuscripts and Associate Librarian for Audience Development at the Folger Shakespeare Library, introduces some of the key online resources for learning how to read English secretary hand. She provides a very brief introduction to the most unfamiliar letterforms in the early modern alphabet and answers questions from the audience. Websites referenced in this presentation: **List of Online Resources for Early Modern English Paleography: https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/List_of_online_resources_for_early_modern_English_paleography 
**Heather Wolfe's Alphabet Book (unpublished resource): https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/mediawiki/media/images_pedia_folgerpedia_mw/7/79/AlphabetBook2020.pdf **Practical Paleography study group: https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Practical_Paleography
 Edited English subtitles by Sara Schliep.
circa 1475 – 1650
Graduates, Professionals, Scholars, Undergraduates
Paleography, English
English Secretary Hand
Heather Wolfe (created by)
Bibliographical Society of America (published by)
Wolfe, Heather. "You! Can Learn English Secretary Hand From Home." June 5, 2020. Lecture delivered virtually on Zoom. MP4, 41:19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgU3K33BKD0&t=1780s.
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