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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: THESE ARE BASED ON the HENGWRT and ELLESMERE manuscripts, but the other volumes are essentially similar.
En-face? NO.
NOTE ON PAGINATION
Most of these volumes are double-paginated: they have
their own pages (sometimes labeled "Hengwrt," "Ellesmere,"
"Petworth," etc., as the case may be) as well as
cross-references to the page numbers of the combined
"Six-text" edition. It is the Hengwrt (Ellesmere, Petworth,
etc.) page numbers that I refer to below and that should
be recorded using the N attribute of the <PB> tag.
Record the "Six-text" page numbers with a <MILESTONE> tag:
<MILESTONE REND="6T" UNIT="p"> (see below under MILESTONES).
STRUCTURE
Note: the tables of contents (Hengwrt, Ellesmere pages vii-x;
Lansdowne pp. iii-viii; Petworth pp. v-viii; Cambridge Dd pp.
ix-xi; )
are useful guides to the structure of these books.
<FRONT> contains only the title page.
<BODY> contains the main text.
<BACK> contains the Appendix, if any.
<DIV1>s with TYPE="group" are used in the main
text to record the so-called "groups" (Group A, Group
B, etc.):
<DIV1 TYPE="group" N="A">
<HEAD>GROUP A. FRAGMENT I.</HEAD>
<DIV1 TYPE="group" N="D">
<HEAD>GROUP D. FRAGMENT V.</HEAD>
<DIV2>s with TYPE="tale" are used to record the
individual Canterbury Tales and other pieces
of the collection labeled in the book (sometimes
only in the running header) with a section sign
(§), e.g.:
<DIV2 TYPE="tale">
<HEAD>§ 1. GENERAL PROLOGUE</HEAD>
<HEAD>Here begynneth the Book of the tales of
Caunterbury.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="tale">
<HEAD>Here bigynneth the knyghtes tale.</HEAD>
Note: use the running headers as a guide to the
beginning and end of tales; but use the actual
headings found in the text when constructing
a <HEAD>.
<DIV3>s with TYPE="part" are used when the tales
are subdivided by headings, e.g. in the
Monk's Tale, which is divided into sections
dealing with various heroes:
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>[Sampson]</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>LO Sampson / which that was anunciat</L>
<L>By the Aungel / longe er his natiuitee</L>
(in the Lansdowne manuscript, the heading
is repeated with the phrase "De Eodem"
("the same"). Ignore these completely.)
or in the Squire's Tale, which is divided into
parts:
<TRAILER>¶ Explicit secunda pars</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part" N="3">
<HEAD>[Inci]pit tercia pars</HEAD>
<L>Apollo whirleth vp / hi Char so hye</L>
or in the Parson's Tale:
oute of vn|holy place</P></DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Remedium contra peccatum auaricie</HEAD>
<P>[804] NOw shulle ye vndirstonde / that the
releuynge of Auarice / is misericorde ...
<LG>s are reserved for true stanzas, e.g. in the
Second Nun's Tale, where the stanzas are
numbered.
<P> is used to record the paragraphs in the
prose tales.
<BACK> contains the appendix, divided into <DIV1>s
corresponding to the numbered items (see
the lists at the beginning of the Appendix
(e.g. Hengwrt, page 653; Ellesmere, page
683) for a guide; not all 'numbered' items
actually show a number in the book, even when
they are numbered in the table of contents).
<DIV2>s are used for separate items grouped
together as a single numbered item, e.g.
the Link, the Preamble, and the Tale
that collectively make up item number 5
in the Hengwrt appendix: each of these is
a <DIV2>.
Also for any other subdivisions marked by
headings.
MILESTONES
(1) Folio references appear mostly in the margins in brackets and small
type:
[leaf 165] = <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="165a">
[leaf 165, back] = <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="165b">
[leaf 166] = <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="166a">
Sometimes they appear in footnotes:
[1 leaf 270, back] = <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="270b">
Sometimes they are confusingly mixed with ordinary notes:
[1 Rats. lf 166, bk]
= <NOTE PLACE="marg"><I>Rats.</NOTE>
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="166b">
[1 Rats. leaf 167, back]
= <NOTE PLACE="marg"><I>Rats.</I></NOTE>
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="167b">
(2) "Six-text" page numbers appear usually in parentheses at
the bottom of the page, after the regular page number;
also commonly at the top of the page followed by the
phrase "SIX-TEXT"; the real page numbers, on the other
hand, are usually preceded by the name of the manuscript
to which the individual volume is dedicated (even if
another manuscript is being used on that page).
(1)
at top of page: 532 SIX-TEXT HENGWRT MS. 383
at bottom: HENGWRT 383 (6-T. 532)
(2)
at top of page: 643 SIX-TEXT Ellesmere MS. 639
at bottom: ELLESMERE 639 (6-T. 643)
(3)
at top of page: SIX-TEXT 483 Petworth MS.
at bottom: PETWORTH 221 (6-T. 483)
(4)
at top of page: SIX-TEXT 593 / Corpus MS. 605
at bottom: ARCH.SELD.B.14 (for Corpus 605) (6-T. 593)
Record these as milestones alongside the regular <PB>
tags:
(1)
<PB N="383">
<MILESTONE REND="6T" UNIT="p" N="532">
(2)
<PB N="639">
<MILESTONE REND="6T" UNIT="p" N="643">
(3)
<PB N="221">
<MILESTONE REND="6T" UNIT="p" N="483">
(4)
<PB N="605">
<MILESTONE REND="6T" UNIT="p" N="593">
NOTES
Notes appear everywhere, usually in small type, most commonly
at the edge of the text, but sometimes also between the lines
or at the foot of the page. Interlinear glosses may appear
between the lines over particular words (see, e.g., Hengwrt p. 384,
line 186). Editorial notes usually appear in brackets; scribal
notes without brackets. Most of the editorial notes are
keyed to the text by reference numbers; the scribal notes
are not. Treat all of these in the usual way; that is,
insert the note in the text wherever it seems best to belong.
When a note refers to a span between two reference numbers,
leave the reference numbers in place in both text and note,
and place the note after the second number.
Some scribal notes were too big to print on the page. In that
case, the editor has placed his own note in the margin, indicating
where to find the text of the scribal note, e.g., Hengwrt page 331
(6-text page 458), line 1795 reads:
parfourned hath the sonne / hi Ark diurne [Latin note, p. 477]
The comment in brackets refers to a list of side-notes
printed on Hengwrt p. 350 (= Six-text p. 477), where the full text
of the note appears, like this:
p. 458, l. 1795. [Ar]ke diurne . quidam circulus [....] ..
meto vocatur Zodiacus [...] .. sol cotidie cressit. [MS,
leaf 145, back, in a later hand and faint ink.]
*If possible, remove this note from the separate page where
it is printed (in this case page 350/6T-477)
and place the full text of the note in the text
on the page where it belongs (in this case page 331/6T-458).*
CHARACTERS
| The double vertical bars in the prose tales should be recorded with the standard ISO ‖ entity. | |
| The strange-looking squiggle that appears almost like a little human figure can be recorded simply by a period (.) | |
| The punctuation mark that looks like an upside-down semicolon can be recorded simply with a semicolon (;) | |
| The punctuation mark that looks like an equals sign can be recorded with an equals sign (=). | |