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Thank you for thinking of contributing.Albrecht Dürer's engraving of Saint Jerome writing at a desk in his study, with a lion and a dog asleep in the foregroundAlbrecht Dürer, Saint Jerome in His Study, 1514. Engraving. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Jerome, patron saint of translators and archivists.

If you have scans of a historical source, a transcription you've made, or both, just email them to plainoldtext@vjbe.net. They don't need to be perfect: a rough transcription or a handful of phone photos of the pages is a fine place to start, and we can tidy things up together. It helps to mention where the source came from (a library, archive or digitised collection) so it can be cited properly.

Spotted a typo, a misread word or a wrong date in one of the existing texts? Corrections are just as welcome, however small. Send an email, or if you're comfortable with Git, open a pull request on GitHub.

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