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Deciphering Secrets: Burgos - SILReST: Six Essential Strategies for Advanced Paleography

This video is an overview lecture of SILREST, which are six essential strategies for advanced transcription of Spanish manuscripts. Professor Roger L. Martinez-Davila presents and uses this paleography process in his Deciphering Secrets Massive Open Online Courses. What is SILReST? The six strategies are: S. Strategy #1 - Scan the entire document before attempting to transcribe it. It is important for you to become familiar with how the scribe writes. Repeatedly scanning a document will help your eyes to become accustomed to the “hand” of the scribe. I. Strategy #2 - Identify those letters, abbreviations, and numbers that you can immediately recognize. This is very straightforward, but it is the beginning of finding your way into the document. Finding easy-to-recognize letters will help appreciate how much you can already see and it will spur you along to uncover other letters and words. L. Strategy #3 - Locate common words to (a) understand how the scribe connects their letters together and (b) recognize other alphabetical letters and numbers. This strategy helps you identify letters that are hard to recognize. If you see a common word, and you are flexible in terms of how it might be spelled, then you see many curious spellings of words you know. More importantly, you can find new letters using this strategy. Re. Strategy #4 - Recognize the abbreviations used in the document and if they vary within the document. Finding and marking your abbreviations makes your task easier because it reminds you some words on the page are not complete words at all. Rather, they are almost nonsensical connections of letters. Find the abbreviations so that your eyes and mind do not attempt to create words that do not exist on the page. S. Strategy #5 - Search for English-Spanish cognates (those words that share similar meanings and spellings in English and Spanish) to identify more letters and connections. Cognates are helpful because you can work “backwards” into reading letters on the page. For example, if you know the word might be “jurisdiction” in English and therefore is “jurisdicion” in Spanish, then you can begin to identify hard to read letters within the word on the page. T. Strategy #6 - Type or write your transcription and leave plenty of room to add edits. Creating a transcript will help you fill in the blanks as you work through those last, hard to read letters and words. Learn more about Deciphering Secrets MOOCs at http://decipheringsecrets.com.