It takes the average reader 3 hours and 30 minutes to read Teach Yourself Palaeography by Claire Jarvis
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
This is the very first 'teach yourself' book on palaeography, covering all the skills that the genealogist needs to read any document that might be found at any date in English archives. Using a series of graded exercises in transcription, Teach Yourself Palaeography works backwards in time in easy stages from the modern handwriting of the nineteenth century to the court hands of the medieval period, focusing on records that are of particular interest to family and local historians. The book provides a unique, self-contained reference guide to palaeography, and to all the different letter forms, symbols and abbreviations that have ever been used in English records.
Teach Yourself Palaeography by Claire Jarvis is 206 pages long, and a total of 52,736 words.
This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 64% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 48 minutes to read Teach Yourself Palaeography aloud.
Teach Yourself Palaeography is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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