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ID # AJT8111
SHORT BATCH DESIGNATION: AK
TITLE: The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man, by John Lydgate
ED. Frederick J. Furnivall
PUBLISHED: Early English Text Society ES 77, 83, 92 (1899, 1901, 1904)
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS
En-face? NO.
Key and code the following pages:
1. Title page (both sides) = pp. [iii*-iv*]
2. Main text = pp. 1-665
Structure
<DIV1>
This item consists of a small amount of <FRONT> matter
(the title pages), followed by the <BODY>
of the text, which contains a single top-level <DIV1>.
<DIV2>s
(pp. 1-5) Lydgate's (translator's) prologue
(pp. 6-9) De Guilleville's (author's) prologue
(pp. 9-665) The Pylgrym (main text).
<DIV3>s
Divide the third <DIV2> into <DIV3>s in order to
separate the bulk of the poem from certain inserted
pieces, as follows:
(pp. 9-184) <DIV3> ordinary text.
(pp. 185-190) <DIV3> inserted Latin poem on the Creed.
(pp. 190-194) <DIV3> ordinary text.
(pp. 194-199) <DIV3> inserted Latin poem on God.
(pp. 199-201) <DIV3> inserted Latin poem to Mary.
(pp. 201-437) <DIV3> ordinary text
[treat the French at the bottom of pp. 201-204
as a single <NOTE>]
(pp. 437-456) <DIV3> "Tu es refugium" etc.
[this is prose, but is lineated continuously
with the verse, so treat it as verse,
with <L>]
[this <DIV3> has subdivisions; use <DIV4>s
as follows:
(pp. 437-444) <DIV4> (unnamed)
(pp. 444-447) <DIV4> ('ffirste Consolacion')
(pp. 447-449) <DIV4> ('Seconnde Consolacion')
(pp. 449-452) <DIV4> ('Thrydde Consolacion')
(pp. 452-454) <DIV4> ('ffourthe Consolacion')
(pp. 454-455) <DIV4> ('Mary be our Refuge...' -- inserted poem)
(pp. 455-456) <DIV4> (conclusion of fourth consolation)]
(pp. 457-528) <DIV3> ordinary text
(pp. 528-533) <DIV3> "Incipit carmen ..." (inserted Latin ABC poem)
(pp. 533-621) <DIV3> ordinary text
(pp. 621-623) <DIV3> Acrostic of Guillaume's name (inserted Latin poem)
(pp. 624-665) <DIV3> ordinary text
[treat the extended French quotation at the bottom of p. 665 as a
<NOTE> attached to the last line (<L N="24832">) of the English text.]
Smaller divisions
Numerous smaller divisions within the verse are marked by unnumbered
lines, usually in bold type (but sometimes in ordinary type, or
perhaps italic, usually within square brackets) that serve as headings,
sometimes also accompanied by large initial capitals.
Do not confuse these heading with bracketed interlinear notes that
point to the presence of gaps or illustrations or illuminations in the
manuscript. These should be treated as <NOTE PLACE="inter">.
Other divisions are marked only by paragraph-style indentation.
Treat both of these--those with headings and those without--as
line-groups (<LG>); record the headings with <HEAD>.
Example (p.462):
<L>Sholde vn-to hym do now homage."</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Avarice:<NOTE PLACE="marg">St., <I>om.</I> C.</NOTE></HEAD>
<L>'Syth thow wylt fyrst yse,</L>
<L N="17252">And what my namë sholdë be,</L>
<L>I wyl, as now, no thyng spare;</L>
<L>But the trouthe to thè declare,</L>
<L>That thow shalt (with-oute ofence)</L>
<L N="17256">Yive to me the mor credence.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>'Yiff thow lyst the trouthë se,</L>
<L>Kom on an-noon, and folwe me,</L>
<L>And thow shalt (yiff thow kanst espye)</L>
Contrast this, which is *not* a <LG> break (p. 463):
<L N="17272">Squar as ys a Tabler.
<NOTE PLACE="inter">[<I>8 lines blank in MS. for an Illumination.</I>]</NOTE>
</L>
<L>And I beheld also with-al,</L>
Milestones
This book contains a confusing variety of milestones:
1. Most folio references appear in the margins in square
brackets, preceded by the word "leaf". Like this:
[leaf 244]
[leaf 244, bk.]
[leaf 245]
[leaf 245, bk.]
[leaf 132, back]
Record as:
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="244a">
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="244b">
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="245a">
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="245b">
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="132b">
Place the <MILESTONE> tag within the text at the end
of the line next to which the reference appears.
2. Some folio references specify a different manuscript
either explicitly or implicitly. Explicit ones
look like this:
[Stowe MS. 952, leaf 310, bk.]
[Stowe, leaf 311]
[Cott. Tib., A vii, lf. 39]
[Tib. leaf 40]
Record as:
<MILESTONE REND="Stowe" UNIT="folio" N="310b">
<MILESTONE REND="Stowe" UNIT="folio" N="311a">
<MILESTONE REND="Tib" UNIT="folio" N="39a">
<MILESTONE REND="Tib" UNIT="folio" N="40a">
Implicit ones are difficult. Some pages have a
manuscript designation at the top, in bold text,
in brackets; all folio references on that page,
unless another manuscript is designated, are
probably from the manuscript given at the top
of the page. Folio references to that manuscript
sometimes mention the manuscript, sometimes
don't. For those that don't, one needs to look
at the head-of-page designation for a clue (the
designation itself does not need to be keyed).
For example, on pp. 487-494
Page with MS designation at top has these folio references:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
on p. 487 (headed [Stowe MS. 952]) [Stowe, leaf 314]
on p. 488 (headed [Stowe MS. 952]) [Stowe, leaf 314, back]
on p. 489 (headed [Stowe MS. 952]) [Stowe 952, leaf 314, back]
[Tiberius, A vii, leaf 39, staind]
[Cott. Tib. A vii, lf. 39]
on p. 490 (headed [Tiberius, A vii (staind)]) [Stowe, leaf 315]
[leaf 39, back]
on p. 491 (headed [Tiberius, A vii.]) [Tib. leaf 40]
[Stowe, leaf 315, back]
[leaf 40, back]
on p. 492 (headed [Tiberius, A vii.] [Tib. leaf 41]
[Stowe, leaf 316]
on p. 493 (headed [Tiberius, A vii.] [leaf 41, back]
[leaf 42]
on p. 494 (headed [Tiberius, A vii.] [Stowe, leaf 316, back]
[leaf 42, back]
Despite the variety of form, there are clearly two
sets of folio references here, one to the Tiberius
manuscript, one to the Stowe manuscript. Record
as:
<MILESTONE REND="Stowe" UNIT="folio" N="314a">
<MILESTONE REND="Stowe" UNIT="folio" N="314b">
<MILESTONE REND="Stowe" UNIT="folio" N="314b">
<MILESTONE REND="Tib" UNIT="folio" N="39a">
<MILESTONE REND="Tib" UNIT="folio" N="39a">
<MILESTONE REND="Stowe" UNIT="folio" N="315a">
<MILESTONE REND="Tib" UNIT="folio" N="39b">
<MILESTONE REND="Tib" UNIT="folio" N="40a">
<MILESTONE REND="Stowe" UNIT="folio" N="315b">
<MILESTONE REND="Tib" UNIT="folio" N="40b">
<MILESTONE REND="Tib" UNIT="folio" N="41a">
<MILESTONE REND="Stowe" UNIT="folio" N="316a">
<MILESTONE REND="Tib" UNIT="folio" N="41b">
<MILESTONE REND="Tib" UNIT="folio" N="42a">
<MILESTONE REND="Stowe" UNIT="folio" N="316b">
<MILESTONE REND="Tib" UNIT="folio" N="42b">
3. Another set of marginal milestones contain cross-
references to the English prose version of the
same work. They appear variously, like this:
(p. 13) [Cap. v, l. 10]
(p. 14) [prose, p. 3]
(p. 14) [Cap. v]
(p. 14) [Cap. iv, l. 11]
(p. 15) [prose, p. 2]
(p. 15) [prose, p. 3]
(p. 15) [Cap. iv]
(p. 16) [Cap. v]
(p. 16) [prose, p. 3]
(p. 17) [cap. vi, prose]
(p. 18) [Cap. vii]
(p. 20) [Cap. viii]
(p. 22) [Cap. ix]
(p. 23) [Cap. x]
(p. 49) [prose, p. xii]
(p. 49) [Cap. xvi]
(p.105) [Cap. li]
(p.107) [Prose. Cap. lii]
(p.110) [Prose. Cap. liii]
(p.110) [Cap. liv]
(p.112) [Cap. lv]
(p.114) [Cap. lvi]
(p.116) [Cap. lvii, prose.]
(p.117) [Cap. lviii]
(p.118) [Cap. lix, prose]
(p.120) [Cap. lx, prose.]
(p.141) [Cap. lxxiv, prose.]
(p.141) [Camb., p. 43]
(p.223) [Cap. cxxviii, prose]
(p.228) [Camb. prose, cap. cxxix.]
(p.229) [Camb. prose, cap. cxxxi.]
For consistency's sake, record these as follows:
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap:line" N="v:10">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="page" N="3">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="iv">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap:line" N="iv:11">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="page" N="2">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="page" N="3">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="iv">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="v">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="page" N="3">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="vi">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="vii">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="viii">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="ix">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="x">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="page" N="12">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="xvi">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="li">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="lii">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="liii">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="liv">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="lv">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="lvi">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="lvii">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="lviii">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="lix">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="lx">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="lxxiv">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="page" N="43">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="cxxviii">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="cxxix">
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="cxxxi">
Most of these chapter milestones appear in
connection with some kind of division in the
text, usually a <LG>. If so, place the
<MILESTONE> element at the beginning of the
<LG>.
If additional material appears within the brackets
(e.g. a note on missing chapters), encode that
separately as a <NOTE> following the <MILESTONE>
tag. For example:
(p. 228) [Cap. cxxviii, prose; cap. cxxvii
is not in the verse English.]
<MILESTONE REND="prose" UNIT="cap" N="cxxviii">
<NOTE>cap. cxxvii is not in the verse English</NOTE>
Notes
This edition puts notes everywhere it can squeeze them,
including interlinearly in brackets, in the margins, and
at the bottom of the page. Most notes are keyed to the
text by note numbers. Use the usual method of inserting
the <NOTE> into the text, removing the reference number,
and indicating the printed location of the note by means
of the PLACE attribute (<NOTE PLACE="foot">, etc.).
Some notes appear next to lines or line groups; use the usual
method of attaching the note to the end of the appropriate
line.
If the note is in brackets, include the brackets.
Some of the notes (especialy scribal notes) themselves
have notes; in that case, nest one note inside the
other. Example (p. 12):
<L>Crysostom Recordeth ek also,--
<NOTE PLACE="marg">
Magna violencia est, nasci in terra,
& celum capere,
<NOTE PLACE="foot">rapere St.</NOTE>
& ha|bere per virtutem quod non potest haberi per
naturam. Crysosto[mus].</NOTE></L>
<L>Who lyst taken hed ther-to,--</L>
<L>That gret vyolence & myght</L>
<L>yt ys, who that loke a-ryht,</L>
<L>A man be born in erth her downe,</L>
Duplicate notes are represented by "ditto" marks (").
In that case, reproduce the previous note. Example (p.147):
<L>In wych thow hast ylost no thyng
<NOTE PLACE="marg">[C. & St.]</NOTE></L>
<L N="5632">But yfounde ful grete Fortheryng.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">[C. & St.]</NOTE></L>
<L>Wherfor thow shuldest, lyke the wyse,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">[C. & St.]</NOTE></L>
A few notes contain a double footnote number,
like this (p. 471):
[1_1 Stowe]
or this (p. 13):
1_1 Verba translatoris
Such notes are keyed to *two* reference numbers in
the text. "3_3 omitted C." means that "all
the text between the first superscript
number '3' and the second superscript number
'3' is omitted by manuscript 'CC.'" Our solution
to these is a kludge:
(1) Find the two reference numbers in the
text (e.g., the two '3's).
(2) Leave both numbers in place, including
the superscript tags (<SUP>).
(3) Place the note into the text following
the *second* of the two matching
reference numbers.
(4) Leave the "3_3" in place within the text
of the note itself.
Here is an example (p. 471):
<L>'Wych hath a knyff ful <SUP>1</SUP>sharp of egge,<SUP>1</SUP>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">[1_1 Stowe]</NOTE></L>
<L>An yet he dar no glovys begge;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">[Stowe]</NOTE></L>