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Vocabulary, Abbreviations, and Dictionaries for Medieval English Documents

Cappelli, Adriano. Lexicon Abbreviaturarum: Dizionario Di Abbreviature Latine Ed Italiane. Milan, 1912. (link online)

Latham, R.E. Revised Medieval Latin Word-List from British and Irish Sources. British Academy, 1965. (amazon)

Martin, Charles Trice. The Record Interpreter. 2nd ed. London, 1910. (link online) (pdf) 

Trotter, D.A., et al., eds. The Anglo-Norman On-line Hub. Aberystwyth University and Swansea University, 2003. (link)

Whitaker, William. Words: Latin-English Dictionary Program. University of Notre Dame, 1993-2010. (link online) (mac) (pc) 

Young, Abigail Ann. REED Anglo-Latin Wordbook. University of Toronto, 2007. (link online)


Reading Medieval English Handwriting

A one sheet on capital & lower case letters (jpg)

A History of Letter Forms with Samples (pdf part 1) (pdf part 2)

D.S. Smith's Medieval Latin Documents, series 2: Probate Records. University of York, 1984. (pdf part 1) (pdf part 2)