Collaborative Research Teams for MS Lab 1a

Physical Description and Decoding of the Parchment Document's Recto ("Indenture" proper) Side:  Samia, Madelyn, and Bronwyn
 

Digital Image Specialists, esp. Images of the Document's Verso Side (sometimes called "docketing," "endorsements," "engrossing"): Tristyn, Lily and Lucas
 

Internet Research of the Document's Named People, Places, and Things (O.E.D., Google Maps, Google "exact word search"): Georgia, Han, and Eva
 

        After the first hour, we will swap assignments: Physical-->Digital; Digital-->Internet; Internet-->Physical. 
        Also, during both sessions, please call on persons from other groups to help you.  Most obviously, the Physical and Digital groups will be feeding the Internet groups names to look up.  The Physical and Digital groups will be working directly with manuscript hands, but Physical will be almost entirely occupied with the lawyer's scribe's hand, whereas the Digital group will have the personal hands of those who endorsed the verso at various times as the terms of the recto indenture were carried out over the years.  Each can help the other, but the Physical group has the toughest task.  Internet can feed both groups with corrected or alternate spellings of names that might have been misread when encountered on the document or images.  Internet also can come back to Physical and Digital to suggest more likely readings of  puzzling passages.
        After the second half hour, we will join as a class to share what we know about this document's "social life" (Duguid and Brown) and the community relationships it constructs.