English Court Hand, A. D. 1066 to 1500: Illustrated Chiefly From the Public Records. E-book. Formato PDF Hilary Jenkinson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

As is explained in the Introduction, this book is intended for a strictly practical purpose - that of supplying the Student with such facsimiles of English mediaeval documents as the improvement in photographic processes has of late rendered possible: its form is further conditioned by the great preponderance in this country of documents of purely administrative origin. We are very well aware that our treatment of the subject is empirical: indeed we hope that we may have provided here the foundation for more detailed study and more definite conclusions in the near future.The plan of the work was originally laid down by our colleague Mr. C. G. Crump. When he was prevented from following it up, the execution devolved upon us: but we have had the advantage of his help and advice throughout.

A Manual of Archive Administration Including the Problems of War Archives and Archive Making. E-book. Formato PDF Hilary Jenkinson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Archives Of the past: just as no one can have a really sound knowledge of Elizabethan handwritings who has not come to them through the medieval ones out of which they were deve loped. There is, I believe, only one series of modern Archive questions which could not be answered — and answered best by a properly trained Archivist drawing directly upon his experience with ancient collections that is the series of questions referring to the relative positions Of the Archivist and the Maker of Archives, and to Archive-making generally; in which cases a new point of view is possible because we can here, so to Speak, get at the Archives before they are made.