I thought I would show a picture of my first homework assignment for my palaeography class. After only one class, we got a packet of six documents to transcribe. Here are two of them.

Can you read them? Neither can I. The funny thing is my Latin class is right after the palaeography class.

This is one of Leonardo da Vinci's personal notebooks. The writing is his own. He used to write backwards so you could only read his notes if you held them up to a mirror and read the reflection.

I have only had one week of class, but so far they are going well.  The teachers here love to assign a lot of reading.