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Book-by-book coding instructions
ID # BAA8159
SHORT BATCH DESIGNATION: AI
TITLE: The Earliest Complete English Prose Psalter (part 1: no more issued)
ED. Karl D. Bülbring
PUBLISHED: Early English Text Society OS 97 (1891)
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS
En-face? NO.
Key and code the following pages:
1. Title page (recto and verso) = p. [iii-iv] (unnumbered)
2. Errata = p. xvi
3. Text = pp. [1]-196
Structure
This item consists of a small amount of <FRONT> matter
(the title page and errata), followed by the <BODY>
of the text, consisting of two unnmarked top-level divisions,
Psalms and Canticles:
<DIV1>s
(p.1) <DIV1>
<HEAD>Early English Psalter.[British Museum, Additional MS. 17376.]</HEAD>
(p.179) <DIV1>
<HEAD>[Canticles]</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="Canticle">
<HEAD>PSALMUS ISAYE.
<NOTE PLACE="foot">No heading in MS.</NOTE>
(Isaie xii. 1-6.)
</HEAD>
<DIV2>s
The first <DIV1> (Psalms) is divided into 150 <DIV2>s corresponding
to the 150 Psalms.
[Most of the psalms include two numbers in the heading, e.g.
"PSALM 14 (15)". Leave both numbers in the <HEAD> element, but
use only the first number when supplying a value for the "N"
attribute of the <DIV2> tag. E.g.:
<DIV2 TYPE="Psalm" N="14">
<HEAD>PSALM 14 (15).</HEAD>]
The second <DIV1> (Canticles) is divided into twelve canticles,
each with an individual name; they are not numbered.
<DIV2 TYPE="Canticle">
<HEAD>PSALMUS ISAYE.<NOTE PLACE="foot">No heading in MS.</NOTE>
(Isaie xii. 1-6.)</HEAD>
Smaller divisions
Numbered prose 'verses' within each psalm should be treated as
paragraphs (<P>), the number removed from the text and added
to the <P> tag as the value of the "N" attribute. E.g., p.4:
<DIV2 TYPE="Psalm" N="5">
<HEAD>PSALM 5.</HEAD>
<P N="1">Lord, take myn wordes wyþ þyne eren;
vndresonde my crye.</P>
<P N="2">Vnderston (!) þe voice of myn praier, þou
my king and my God.</P>
<P N="3">For y schal praie to þe, Lord, and tou schalt
erlich here mye uoice.</P>
Milestones
Folio references appear as footnotes among the other footnotes
below the primary text. They look like this:
1 fol. 136.
2 fol. 136b.
Record as:
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="136a">
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="136b">
Place the <MILESTONE> tag within the text at the point
marked by the footnote number, removing the superscripted
number itself from both text and reference.
The second set of footnotes, below the page-wide line at
the bottom of the page, contains a second set of folio
references, referring to a different manuscript (Trinity
College Dublin MS A.4.4). These appear below the notes,
preceded by an asterisk, and are flagged in the text
of the notes by a corresponding asterisk.
*5 goste h.] goste hery.
* fol. 51b.
Record these as <MILESTONES> too, placing the <MILESTONE>
element within the text of the <NOTE>, at the point
designated by the asterisk (and removing the asterisk
itself from both text and reference. Add a REND
attribute to distinguish these folio references from
those applied to the main text:
<NOTE PLACE="foot"><MILESTONE UNIT="folio" REND="Dub" N="51b">
<I>goste h.</I>] goste hery.</NOTE>
Notes
There are two sets of notes, both at the bottom of the page.
Set 1 is keyed to the text by footnote numbers. Treat these
as described in the Keying/Coding Guidelines, inserting
the note into the text at the point marked by the reference
number.
Set 2 is keyed to the text by Psalm and paragraph number. Insert
these into the text at the end of the appropriate paragraph.
To distinguish these from Set 1, use PLACE="foot1" for the
upper set and PLACE="foot2" for the second set.
Example (p. 15; Psalm 15; verse 9):
<P N="9">For þat
<NOTE PLACE="foot1"><I>at</I> on erasure in a later hand.</NOTE>
min hert ioide,
<NOTE PLACE="foot1">MS. <I>seide</I>.</NOTE>
and my tunge shal gladen, and my flesshe shal al-so resten in hope.
<NOTE PLACE="foot2">& þer-for myne h. was gladyd :
ioie : also schal.</NOTE>
</P>
"-" and "+" in the Notes, Set 2
This set of notes assigns particular meaning to two characters:
a large "+" sign and a long m-dash character. Record the
former as "+" and the latter as —