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Book-by-book coding instructions
ID # ANZ2316
SHORT BATCH DESIGNATION: AL
TITLE: The Romance of Sir Beues of Hamtoun.
ED. Eugen Kölbing
PUBLISHED: Early English Text Society ES 46, 48, 65 (1885, 1886, 1894)
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS
En-face? NO.
Key and code the following pages:
1. Title page (both sides) = pp. [iii-iv]
2. Main text = pp. 1-218
Structure
<FRONT> contains the title page only.
<BODY> contains two top-level divisions corresponding to the
two major versions of the poem:
<DIV1 TYPE="version" N="A">
= The text on the top half of the page, pp. 1-73,
75-132, 135-218
<DIV1 TYPE="version" N="x">
= The text on the lower half of the page, pp. 1-81,
102-132, 135-218
Smaller divisions
The verse lines may be divided into line-groups (<LG>):
o Some of the upper text is divided into six-line stanzas,
pp. 1-21.
o The remainder of the upper text (possibly also the lower)
is divided sporadically into verse paragraphs that should
be tagged with <LG>. Trust indentation or large initial
capitals as clues to <LG> breaks.
NOTE: Don't confuse the indentation that marks paragraph
breaks with the indentation that is used when a long line
is printed in two lines for want of enough space on the
page. See Keying/Coding Guidelines.
Milestones
1. Folio references appear in the margin (or sometimes squeezed
right into the text; or sometimes printed as footnotes)
in small type, and look like this:
(upper text)
f. 176a1 (in margin, p.1)
f. 176a2 (in text, p.4)
f. 176b1 (in margin, p.5)
f. 176b2 (in margin, p.7)
(lower text)
f. 122a. (in text, p.1)
f. 122b. (in footnote, p.2)
f. 123a. (in footnote, p.3)
f. 123b. (in margin, p.5)
Record these as:
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="176a:1">
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="176a:2">
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="176b:1">
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="176b:2">
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="122a">
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="122b">
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="123a">
<MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="123b">
Insert the <MILESTONE> tags in the text
as laid out in the Keying/Coding Guidelines.
2. Where manuscripts other than the main two are printed,
folio references to those manuscripts appear that
include an alphabetical designation for the manuscript.
Include this designation as the value of the "REND"
attribute, like this:
O f. 3b (in footnote, lower text, p.10)
O f. 4a (in margin, lower text, p.11)
O f. 4b (in margin, lower text, p.11)
S f. 72b (in margin, upper text, p.111)
f. 73a (in margin, upper text, p.111 -- supply "S"!!)
f. 74b (in margin, upper text, p.116 -- supply "S"!!)
A f. 189a1 (in margin, uppper text, p. 117 -- MS "A" resumes!!)
E f. 141a (in margin of notes to upper text, p.132)
E f. 141b (in margin of notes to upper text, p.132)
f. 142a (in margin of notes to upper text, p.133 -- supply E!!)
Record as:
<MILESTONE REND="O" UNIT="folio" N="3b">
<MILESTONE REND="O" UNIT="folio" N="4a">
<MILESTONE REND="O" UNIT="folio" N="4b">
<MILESTONE REND="S" UNIT="folio" N="72b">
<MILESTONE REND="S" UNIT="folio" N="73a">
<MILESTONE REND="S" UNIT="folio" N="74b">
<MILESTONE REND="A" UNIT="folio" N="189a:1">
<MILESTONE REND="E" UNIT="folio" N="141a">
<MILESTONE REND="E" UNIT="folio" N="141b">
<MILESTONE REND="E" UNIT="folio" N="142a">
3. Page-breaks
Since same page will often be recorded twice (once
when recording the upper text as the first <DIV1>,
once when recording the lower text as the
second <DIV1>, the <PB> tag should be entered in
*both* texts.
Notes
There are elaborate sets of footnotes attached to both
upper and lower texts (i.e., to both <DIV1>s). Most
of these are keyed to the text by line number, either
to a single line, or to a range of lines. Follow
the procedures laid out in the Keying/Coding Guidelines;
especially:
(1) when the note is keyed to a particular line,
insert the <NOTE> tag at the end of that line
and drop the line number from the note; but
(2) when the note is keyed to a line range,
insert the <NOTE> tag at the end of the last
line in that range but *preserve* the line
numbers in the note.
Some notes are very long; a few extend for several pages
(e.g., pp. 132-134).
Some notes, especially the long ones, may themselves have
notes, usually keyed to them by footnote number. Nest
the subnotes within the note, following the same procedures
as with regular notes.
Many notes contain verse. This should be given the regular
tags for verse-lines <L> and line-groups <LG>, even though
the poetry appears in a note.