Aaron Allen
@mchapelproject.bsky.social
Christian; Historian of work and trade; Bonnetmakers; Surgeons; Kirkwall Tailors Project; Palaeography; author of Building Early Modern Edinburgh; Trying to learn Latin...
I think you've nailed it! Not only does that fit with the minims ('d[o]mi[ni]ce'), but the -ce looks very similar to those in 'service' and 'place'. Thank you!
October 17, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I think you've nailed it! Not only does that fit with the minims ('d[o]mi[ni]ce'), but the -ce looks very similar to those in 'service' and 'place'. Thank you!
Help with #Latin #Palaeography please! What is this word beginning with d and ending in le?
'In dei nominie Amen per hoc praesens publicum Instrumentum Curatis pateat Evidentum quod anno Incarnationis d[inumerabi]le?? millesimo quingentesimo trigesimonono mensis vero Decembris die decimo sexto'??
'In dei nominie Amen per hoc praesens publicum Instrumentum Curatis pateat Evidentum quod anno Incarnationis d[inumerabi]le?? millesimo quingentesimo trigesimonono mensis vero Decembris die decimo sexto'??
October 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Help with #Latin #Palaeography please! What is this word beginning with d and ending in le?
'In dei nominie Amen per hoc praesens publicum Instrumentum Curatis pateat Evidentum quod anno Incarnationis d[inumerabi]le?? millesimo quingentesimo trigesimonono mensis vero Decembris die decimo sexto'??
'In dei nominie Amen per hoc praesens publicum Instrumentum Curatis pateat Evidentum quod anno Incarnationis d[inumerabi]le?? millesimo quingentesimo trigesimonono mensis vero Decembris die decimo sexto'??
Help with #palaeography please! Is this Schir Richert Avrle or Cwrle? Is it Aurle or Curle? It’s from Edinburgh in 1536. Note the ws (us) in the line above.
October 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Help with #palaeography please! Is this Schir Richert Avrle or Cwrle? Is it Aurle or Curle? It’s from Edinburgh in 1536. Note the ws (us) in the line above.
(3/3) Importantly, Agnes had to sign the Incorporation’s sederunt book to get the money, leaving not only an elegant signature, suggestive of literacy, but also a evocative and personal connection to her life in the seventeenth-century Scottish capital. #SurgeonsProject
September 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
(3/3) Importantly, Agnes had to sign the Incorporation’s sederunt book to get the money, leaving not only an elegant signature, suggestive of literacy, but also a evocative and personal connection to her life in the seventeenth-century Scottish capital. #SurgeonsProject
(1/3) On 13th December 1670, a surgeon’s widow, Agnes Urquhart, was given 20 shillings (sterling, rather than Scots) in charity from her late husband’s Incorporation. Intriguingly, this was under condition she, ‘never…truble them again’. #SurgeonsProject
September 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
(1/3) On 13th December 1670, a surgeon’s widow, Agnes Urquhart, was given 20 shillings (sterling, rather than Scots) in charity from her late husband’s Incorporation. Intriguingly, this was under condition she, ‘never…truble them again’. #SurgeonsProject
Here’s a ~similar one from another document.
September 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Here’s a ~similar one from another document.
Here's another example of his insertion mark - '||', though I'm struggling to find a similar ampersand in this document. As it isn't my transcription (helping with an SRS volume) I haven't seen every page. @estaitis.bsky.social @rodlyall.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Here's another example of his insertion mark - '||', though I'm struggling to find a similar ampersand in this document. As it isn't my transcription (helping with an SRS volume) I haven't seen every page. @estaitis.bsky.social @rodlyall.bsky.social
Full page here. Note the math suggests 'ane' as a chopin is half a pint. They bought 15 chopins; had one donated; ended up with 16 chopins or 8 pints, but it only cost them 7 and a half shillings at 10 pence the pint (5d off for the donation) FAO: @estaitis.bsky.social @rodlyall.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Full page here. Note the math suggests 'ane' as a chopin is half a pint. They bought 15 chopins; had one donated; ended up with 16 chopins or 8 pints, but it only cost them 7 and a half shillings at 10 pence the pint (5d off for the donation) FAO: @estaitis.bsky.social @rodlyall.bsky.social
This one is on my phone - it’s a different scribe/document, but a similar & before ‘Willmo’
September 25, 2025 at 5:17 AM
This one is on my phone - it’s a different scribe/document, but a similar & before ‘Willmo’
#palaeography help please! Is this an ampersand squeezed it with the ‘||’ insertion mark? ‘& ane’?
September 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
#palaeography help please! Is this an ampersand squeezed it with the ‘||’ insertion mark? ‘& ane’?
Any ideas on this one? I think it’s ’& ane’
September 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Any ideas on this one? I think it’s ’& ane’
Working on the Edinburgh Inc. of Surgeon's minutes from 1670 and came across a crossed out apprenticeship entry. The margin note explains why: 'Dead This deleit becaus the prentice Is dead’. His parents sent him to work with a surgeon and he didn't live to finish his training. #SurgeonsProject
September 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Working on the Edinburgh Inc. of Surgeon's minutes from 1670 and came across a crossed out apprenticeship entry. The margin note explains why: 'Dead This deleit becaus the prentice Is dead’. His parents sent him to work with a surgeon and he didn't live to finish his training. #SurgeonsProject
James Cleilland, surgeon in Edinburgh, was apparently a good master! In 1670 he allowed his recently booked servant to leave his service. Did he lose the £3 and 4 shillings of booking fees? Sadly, no indication is given as to why his servant wanted to leave, or where he went. #SurgeonsProject
September 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
James Cleilland, surgeon in Edinburgh, was apparently a good master! In 1670 he allowed his recently booked servant to leave his service. Did he lose the £3 and 4 shillings of booking fees? Sadly, no indication is given as to why his servant wanted to leave, or where he went. #SurgeonsProject
Love it - surgery and hair cutting in 1669 (by surgeons or barbers) were called 'chyrgerie or barborising'. Barber image from Wikimedia Commons: Barber-surgeons operating on a boil on a man's forehead. Oil Wellcome V0017569.jpg
September 13, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Love it - surgery and hair cutting in 1669 (by surgeons or barbers) were called 'chyrgerie or barborising'. Barber image from Wikimedia Commons: Barber-surgeons operating on a boil on a man's forehead. Oil Wellcome V0017569.jpg
Rather fetching copy of the arms of the Edinburgh Incorporation of Surgeons in Maitland’s History of Edinburgh! Tomorrow’s reading…
September 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Rather fetching copy of the arms of the Edinburgh Incorporation of Surgeons in Maitland’s History of Edinburgh! Tomorrow’s reading…
Very excited- while sieving the spoil heap at the dig on the 1722 Waggonway at Cockenzie I found a copper-alloy (brass probably) pin! Just like Adam Smith describes. Date unknown.
September 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Very excited- while sieving the spoil heap at the dig on the 1722 Waggonway at Cockenzie I found a copper-alloy (brass probably) pin! Just like Adam Smith describes. Date unknown.
Trenail hole @1722waggonway.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Trenail hole @1722waggonway.bsky.social
Volunteering today at the Waggonway Dig! @1722waggonway.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Volunteering today at the Waggonway Dig! @1722waggonway.bsky.social
Just arrived in the post!
September 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Just arrived in the post!
#EdinburghSurgeonsProject - August 1668 - Five dollars (Scots) given to the widow ('relict') of Hector Mclie, surgeon, to pay for his funeral expenses, a traditional function of craft incorporations. #corporatism #palaeography
September 2, 2025 at 11:17 AM
#EdinburghSurgeonsProject - August 1668 - Five dollars (Scots) given to the widow ('relict') of Hector Mclie, surgeon, to pay for his funeral expenses, a traditional function of craft incorporations. #corporatism #palaeography
Getting a few lines of #palaeography in before work. In larger transcription projects, where an entire volume is transcribed, I find it quite striking when you can see a perceptible decline in the handwriting of a scribe. Were they getting older? Sick? Needing to sharpen the quill?
August 29, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Getting a few lines of #palaeography in before work. In larger transcription projects, where an entire volume is transcribed, I find it quite striking when you can see a perceptible decline in the handwriting of a scribe. Were they getting older? Sick? Needing to sharpen the quill?
One of the last remaining sections of Edinburgh’s ‘Fodden Wall’ (on the left) meets the ‘Telfer Wall’ at Herriot Place.
August 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM
One of the last remaining sections of Edinburgh’s ‘Fodden Wall’ (on the left) meets the ‘Telfer Wall’ at Herriot Place.
One of my projects is a transcription of the late 17th c. minute book of the Edinburgh Incorporation of Surgeons for the @rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social. Masters were supposed to pay a booking fee to the Inc. for servants and apprentices, but some failed to do so, bringing a hefty £3 fine.
August 26, 2025 at 7:35 AM
One of my projects is a transcription of the late 17th c. minute book of the Edinburgh Incorporation of Surgeons for the @rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social. Masters were supposed to pay a booking fee to the Inc. for servants and apprentices, but some failed to do so, bringing a hefty £3 fine.
Spotted in the wild…
August 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Spotted in the wild…