Historical squiggles

[vivdunstan]

Staring again briefly at the testament(*) of an ancestor who died in 1591. And very grateful for colour manipulation options to make it more readable. Two pics - part of the original, and part of the colour adjusted version. It's still lots of 16th century squiggles, but at least they are clearer 16th century squiggles!

* sort of equivalent to English probate records. It includes legal matters relating to the estate, and debts. And may include a will if there was one. Also occasionally a detailed inventory of personal possessions.

Comments

[watervole]

Those inventories are very helpful to re-enactors. People have done a lot of work into clothing and other stuff using these.

[vivdunstan]

Excellent! I found them very helpful in my history PhD, when, much to my surprise, Scottish inventories can be a good source for lists of books owned by people, from many classes in society. I’ve also found them brilliant for my own Scottish genealogy research :)