SHORT BATCH DESIGNATION: BT
ID #AHB1379
TITLE: The Story of England by Robert Manning of Brunne
ED. Frederick J. Furnivall
PUBLISHED: Rolls Series 87 (2 vols., London, 1887)
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS
En-face? NO.
Key and code the following pages:
1. Title page to Part 1 (front and back)
2. Title page to Part 2 (front and back)
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3. Main text = pages 1-580.
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Structure (Major divisions)
<FRONT> contains only the title pages.
<BODY> contains the main text
<DIV1>s
with TYPE="section" are used whenever there is a
bold heading in the text. Like this:
(p.1) <DIV1 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Incipit Prologus de Historia Britannie ...</HEAD>
(p.5) <DIV1 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Dare Frigius, qui historiam Troianorum ...</HEAD>
(p.6) <DIV1 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Ego Galfridus Arthurus Monemutensis, ...</HEAD>
(p.7) <DIV1 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Genealogia primi regis Troge & Enee ...</HEAD>
(p.8) <DIV1 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Tot terre sunt in vniuerso mundo.</HEAD>
<LG>s
are used whenever there is a break in the text marked by a
large capital letter, but no heading.
note: Ignore the heading on p. 455--
Þe Story of Englande.
(Continued.)
--which just signals the volume break between
parts one and two.
Milestones
Folio references appear in small type in brackets just inside
the column of line numbers, like this:
[leaf 7.] = <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="7a:1">
[leaf 7, col. 2.] = <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="7a:2">
[leaf 7, back.] = <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="7b:1">
[leaf 7, back, col. 2.] = <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="7b:2">
[leaf 8] = <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="8a:1">
[leaf 8, col. 2.] = <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="8a:2">
Notes
(1) most notes appear at the foot of the page, keyed to the text
by superscripted reference numbers. Treat these as usual
as <NOTE PLACE="foot">.
(2) A few words in bold type appear alongside the text, not
quite in the margin. Encode these as <NOTE PLACE="marg">.
Special characters
This book uses a strange form of the "paragraph" or "capitulum"
symbol that looks like this:
Record this with the usual entity ¶