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Book-by-book coding instructions


ID # ACB1675
SHORT BATCH DESIGNATION: AO
TITLE: Iacob and Iosep: a Middle English poem of the thirteenth century
ED. Arthur S. Napier
PUBLISHED: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS

En-face? NO.

Key and code the following pages:

  1. Title page (both sides)        = pp. [iii-iv]
  2. Main text                      = pp. 1-18
    (excluding the unnumbered plate between pp. 8 and 9)
  
Structure

  <FRONT> contains the title page only.
  
  <BODY> contains no divisions except 
  
    verse lines <L>,
    
    a heading <HEAD>[IACOB AND IOSEP]</HEAD>, and
       
    a closer <CLOSER>Explicit Iacob &amp; Iosep.</CLOSER>
    
  
Milestones

  1. Folio references appear in the margin in brackets,
     like this:
  
       [f. 1]
       [f. 1^b]
       [f. 2]
       [f. 2^b]
  
     Record as:
  
       <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="1a">
       <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="1b">
       <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="2a">
       <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="2b">

     Insert the <MILESTONE> tags at the end of the line opposite
     which the folio references appear in the book.

Notes

   There are a few editorial notes at the bottom of the
   page, keyed to the text by footnote numbers.
   Treat these in the usual way. Example (p. 6):
   
     <L N="170">&amp; his sones 
     ten from<NOTE PLACE="foot">MS. <I>fron</I>.</NOTE>
     felde come&thorn; hom,</L>

Characters

   This edition uses the 7-shaped "tironian 'et'"  frequently.
   Record as &amp;.
   
   It represents the manuscript's deletion mark by a dot
   below a character (e.g. in the footnote on page 3).
   Record this dot with the character entity &dotb;
   ('dot below'), placed after the character that is dotted.
   
  <NOTE PLACE="foot"><I>alle</I>] MS. <I>alla&dotb;e.</I></NOTE>
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