CME
Book-by-book coding instructions
SHORT BATCH DESIGNATION: BZ
ID #AHA6127
TITLE: The Babees Book (etc.)
ED. Frederick J. Furnivall
PUBLISHED: Early English Text Society 32 (1868)
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS
En-face? No, except for pp. 54-59, which have
Latin and English on facing pages (we'll key
only the English, on the even-numbered pages).
Key and code the following pages:
1. Title page (front and back)
= IMAGES 00000003.tif-00000004.tif
2. Portions of the main text, viz.:
a. pp. [1]-54
= IMAGES 00000151.tif-00000204.tif
b. even-numbered pp. 56-60
= IMAGES 00000206.tif,
00000208.tif,
00000210.tif
c. pp. 117-199
= IMAGES 00000273.tif-00000355.tif
d. pp. 299-332
= IMAGES 00000459.tif-00000492.tif
e. pp. 356-359
= IMAGES 00000516.tif-00000519.tif
f. pp. 399-402
= IMAGES 00000559.tif-00000562.tif
Structure
<FRONT> contains only the title page.
<BODY> contains the selections from the main
text.
<DIV1>s
with TYPE="poem" are used to record the separate
items, each of which has a heading in gothic type).
A few items are in prose; their <DIV1>s can have
TYPE="item" instead.
(1) The Babees Book, pp. 1-9
(2) Lerne or be Lewde, pp. 9-10
(3) The ABC of Aristotle, pp. 11-12
(4) Vrbanitatis, pp. 13-15
(5) Lytylle Chidrenes ... p. 16
(6) Young Children's Book pp. 17-25
(7) Stans Puer ad Mensam pp. 26-33
[in two versions: below]
(8) Of the Manners to bring .. pp. 34-35
(9) Take what you find ... p. 35
(10) The Reward of the Man ... p. 35
(11) How the Good Wijf ... pp. 36-47
(12) How the Wise Man ... pp. 48-52
(13) Recipes [TYPE="item"] p. 53
(14) Diatorie even pp. 54-58
(15) Recipes [TYPE="item"] p. 60
(16) Russell's Boke of Nurture pp. 117-199
(17) Boke of Curtasye pp. 299-327
(18) Bp. Grossetest's Statutes pp. 328-331
[TYPE="item"]
(19) Stanzas and Couplets ... p. 332
(20) Whate-ever thow sey ... pp. 356-358
(21) A Dogg ... [TYPE="item"] p. 358
(22) Maxims in -ly p. 359
(23) Symon's Lesson of Wysedome pp. 399-402
<DIV2>s
<DIV2>s are used in poem (7) with TYPE="version"
to encode variant versions of the poem:
(1) Harleian MS version (even-numbered pages)
(2) Lambeth MS version (odd-numbered pages)
<DIV2>s are used in poem (16) with TYPE="part"
whenever there are large headings in Gothic type
("Kervyng of Fische" page 153)
<DIV2>s are used in poem (17) with TYPE="book"
for Book 1 (pp. 299-303), Book 2 (pp. 303-309),
and Book 3 (pp. 309-327).
<DIV3>s
<DIV3>s are used in poem (16) with TYPE="section"
whenever there are small headings in Gothic type
("The Second Course." page 165).
<DIV3>s are used in poem (17) with TYPE="section"
whenever there are small headings beginning with
¶
¶ De thesaurizario (p. 318)
¶ De receptore firmarum (p. 319)
¶ De Auenario. (p. 319)
<DIV4>s
<DIV4>s are used in poem (16) for divisions marked
by the bold headings ("Ver" "Estas" etc.) on
pp. 169-70 only.
<LG>s
Some of the poems are in stanzas, which should be
recorded with the <LG> tag, e.g.:
poem (1) in 7-line stanzas
poem (7) in 7-line stanzas
poem (11) in stanzas of various length, most
of them beginning with a large initial capital.
poem (12) in 8-line stanzas
poem (14) in 8-line stanzas with stanza headings
poem (16) in verse paragraphs of various sizes,
usually beginning with a large initial capital
(but the "F" "R" "S" at the bottom of page
139 should be simply coded as <B>)
poem (20) in 8-line stanzas
If there is no obvious stanza structure, just
use lines (<L>) without putting them in groups.
Milestones
Folio and page references usually appear in brackets in the
margins, and should as usual be placed at the end of the
corresponding line of text.
[Fol. 86. b.] = <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="86b">
[Fol. 87.] = <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="87a">
[Fol. 86, back, col. 1.] = <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="86b:1">
[Fol. 86, back, col. 2.] = <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="86b:2">
[Page 31.] = <MILESTONE UNIT="page" N="31">
[Fol.207] = <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="207a">
[Fol.207, back.] = <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="207b">
Sometimes they are in-line in parentheses, and should
be placed wherever in the text that they seem to apply
(usually, the beginning of a section or item).
(fol. 43 b.) = <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="43b">
Occasionally, they will be linked to the text by a
superscripted reference number or by an asterisk,
in which case the <MILESTONE> element should
be inserted in the text in place of the reference
number or asterisk.
[1 Page 32.] = <MILESTONE UNIT="page" N="32">
[* Page 108.] = <MILESTONE UNIT="page" N="108">
[* p. 196] = <MILESTONE UNIT="page" N="196">
Notes
Most of the notes are standard footnotes with footnote
numbers, which should be treated as usual, but there
are also various odd notes of every possible variety,
attached to headings, in the margins, in parentheses
or brackets in-line, in brackets at the foot of the
page, etc. Apply the usual principles as best you can!