Many, if not most, older works lack modern editions. By gaining experience with the conventions of older texts—spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, and so on—students learn how to read and evaluate older works, and the editorial work involved in making older works accessible to modern readers.
The exercise template link provides a template for developing editing and transcription assignments.
The data table link provides suggestions of texts in the Rare Book Room that have been approved for use for editing and transcription exercises, with call numbers and some notes for the pedagogical uses of these works.
The catalogue link provides a summary of the data table, and the gallery link provides all the images of the suggested texts on a single page.
If you have any questions or suggestions, or if you would like to add your assignment to our archive—please contact us. Thank you!