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Book-by-book coding instructions
ID # AHA2740
SHORT BATCH DESIGNATION: AC
TITLE: The English Register of Oseney Abbey (parts 1-2)
ED. Andrew Clark
SERIES: Early English Text Society OS 133, 144 (1907, 1913)
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS
En-face? NO.
Key and code the following pages:
Title page (recto; verso is blank) = p. [iii]
Contents (1 leaf, recto and verso) = pp. [vii]-viii
Text = pp. [1]-234.
Structure
This text consists of a two top-level divisions:
The first <DIV1> is the Mirror of the Lyfe of Cryste,
pp. [1]-4.
The second <DIV1> is the Oseney Cartulary Englished,
pp. 5-209.
The first <DIV1> is a fragment containing only a table of
contents. Tag it as a <TABLE> containing <ROW>s, each
<ROW> containing three <CELL>s. The first <CELL> should
contain the information in the margin (e.g. "v. Mt. i.18-25"),
the second <CELL> the "Capitulum" information (e.g.
"Capitulum quintum") and the third cell the prose description
(e.g. "of the conuersion of mary maudeleyn").
The second <DIV1> contains the bulk of the book.
Subdivide the second <DIV1>, using:
<DIV2> = the sections denoted editorially by roman numerals
and listed in the table of contents on pp. vii-viii.
Use the headings in the table of contents as heading
for each section, supplying them within brackets.
Example:
<DIV2 TYPE="Title" N="VI">
<HEAD>[VI. Of the Foundation of Oseney]</HEAD>
Sometimes the same heading (or a similar one) is
already placed within brackets in the text itself;
use the heading from the table of contents and
ignore the bracketed one already in the text.
Subdivide all the <DIV2>s, using:
<DIV3> = the sections denoted by arabic numerals.
Example:
<DIV3 N="18">
<HEAD>[18.] A Bull of Eugenye pope iij
confermyng &thorn;e forsaide
&yogh;evynges.</HEAD>
NOTE: Where <DIV3> breaks coincide with <DIV2> breaks,
nest the <DIV3> within the <DIV2> and apply to
each the appropriate heading: <DIV2> gets the
roman numeral and chapter heading from the table of
contents, in brackets; <DIV3> gets the arabic
numeral and the bold heading printed in the text
itself.
Example (from p. 10):
<DIV2 TYPE="Title" N="VI">
<HEAD>[VI. Of the Foundation of Oseney]</HEAD>
<DIV3 N="11">
<HEAD>[11.] Sequitur ffundacio Oseneye.</HEAD>
<P>HIT is to be know ...
Milestones
Folio references are recorded in the margin, preceded by
an asterisk, in this form:
*leaf 2.
*leaf 2, back.
*leaf 3.
*leaf 3, back.
etc.
Record these as follows, placing the tag at the spot
indicated by the corresponding asterisk within the text:
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="2a">
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="2b">
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="3a">
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="3b">
Notes
Editorial notes appear at the bottom of the page, keyed
to the text with superscripted footnote numbers. Omit
the superscripted numbers and embed the notes at the
appropriate place in the text:
Goodwyne money-maker<NOTE PLACE="foot">'monetarius.'</NOTE>,
Characters
This edition uses many odd characters; including "g"
and "d" with a final tick; "h" with a horizontal bar
crossing the upright; single "l" and double "ll"
with a curling horizontal line crossing the upright(s);
and "n" "m" "s" and "r" with a final stroke that curves
up and back over the letter. Treat these as simplex
letters: record them simply as "g" "d" "h" "l" "ll"
"n" "m" "s" and "r" respectively.
This edition also preserves some medieval abbreviation
marks:
"&c9." where "9" is a character that looks more or
less like a superscript "9" should be
recorded simply as "&c.$x$"
"dj." with a swung dash (~) above the "j" Record as
"dj$d$."
"l." with a loop like a backward "c" crossing the
upright, then looping up and back over it.
Record as "l$d$."
Special instructions for this book.
*Include* the modern English summaries printed in the
margins (despite the fact that these are normally excluded
from keying); tag them as <ARGUMENT> and place the
<ARGUMENT> tag directly after the <HEAD> at the
head of the item. Many, but not all, of the arguments
will begin with a date. Material in square brackets in the
margins is not part of the argument and should be omitted.