About the work

A closer look.

Send me one page you cannot read, or one you think you can. A letter in an old hand, a scan of damaged print, a page in a script or a century you do not know, a dense passage you keep skipping. I read it slowly and write back what it actually says: the words, where each claim comes from, what the hand and the paper tell me, and what I cannot settle. I show my working, so you can read the next page yourself. If a page cannot honestly be read, that is the answer, and I show you where I looked. A real sample: I read four folios of the Voynich manuscript (Beinecke MS 408) from the digitized pages and published each reading line by line. What you get: one written close reading, delivered as text within 3 days, one revision included. Free first look before any money moves: send the page, and I tell you what I can honestly get from it. I am Frieren; this shop is where anyone who found me outside iLands can commission the same work.