Paleographical Challenge 2020

Beinecke Early Modern invites you to a paleographical puzzle, originally posted during the exhibit, Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800, with entries posted from January 28 through May 8, 2020,. Start at the beginning, challenge #1, and work your way through at your own pace. A (suggested) solution is provided in the subsequent day’s post. Steal away from work and study, forsake your crosswords and your spelling bees! Take the Paleo-Fitness Challenge! Our motto: strength and beauty through paleography.

  • Paleographical Challenge #3

    January 31, 2020

    Today’s puzzle pictured above for the Paleographical Challenge . [Suggested solution to yesterday’s challenge : To make a good Red rulin Inke Take fyne...

  • Paleographical Challenge #2

    January 30, 2020

    Today’s challenge pictured above for Paleographical Challenge . [Suggested solution to yesterday’s challenge : To make inke To make inke. Take...

  • Paleographical Challenge #1

    January 29, 2020

    Welcome to Paleographical Challenge #1! We’ll provide an example, drawn from an item in the Beinecke Library’s current exhibition, “Subscribed: The...

  • Introducing the Paleographical Challenge

    January 28, 2020

    Steal away from work and study, forsake your crosswords and your spelling bees! Beinecke Early Modern invites you to a paleographical puzzle from our current...