CME
Book-by-book coding instructions


SHORT BATCH DESIGNATION: BU
ID #ACA1723
TITLE: The Stonor Letters and Papers
ED.  Charles L. Kingsford
PUBLISHED: Camden Society 3rd series vols. 29-30 (London, 1919)

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS

En-face? NO.

Key and code the following pages:

  1. Title page to vol. 1 (front only; back is blank)
     = IMAGE 00000007.tif
  
  2. Title page to vol. 2 (front only; back is blank)
     = IMAGE 00000009.tif
  
  3. Main text = vol. 1, pp. 1-165; vol. 2, pp. 1-163.
     = IMAGES 00000069.tif-00000233.tif  and
       IMAGES 00000235.tif-00000399.tif
       
       (excluding the plate between vol.2, pp.108-9 
        = IMAGES 00000343.tif-00000344.tif)
        

Structure (Major divisions)

  <FRONT> contains only the title pages.
  
  <BODY> contains the main text
  
  <DIV1>s
  
     with TYPE="item" are used to record the individual
     numbered items (i.e., individual letters and other
     documents). Each item has a number, a heading all in
     caps, and a date. Include the date in the heading, 
     like this:
     
     <DIV1 TYPE="item" N="37">
     <HEAD>37. [EDMUND DE STONOR TO ?] c. 1380</HEAD>
     
     <DIV1 TYPE="item" N="38">
     <HEAD>38. MARGARET, COUNTESS OF DEVON TO EDMUND DE
     STONOR [c. 1380]</HEAD>
     
     <DIV1 TYPE="item" N="39">
     <HEAD>39. BILL FOR CLOTH SUPPLIED TO EDMUND DE STONOR
     [c. 1380]</HEAD>
     
     <DIV1 TYPE="item" N="40">
     <HEAD>WRIT TO THE SHERIFF OF BUCKS ON BEHALF OF EDMUND
     DE STONOR 25 March, 1381</HEAD>
     
  <DIV2>s
  
     with TYPE="section" are used to record any portion of
     an item supplied with its own heading. There are not many of
     these.
     
Structure (minor features)

  LETTERS. Many of the items are letters; typically each 
           letter contains a paragraph (<P>) or more of
           prose, followed by a signature and often a
           salutation, like this:
           
--------------------------------------------------------------- 
|  Let William cum in all hast. And the blessyd Trinite kepe  | 
|  yow. I-wrytyn at Lundon the Saterday afore seynt Edward    |
|  is day.                                                    |
|                                     By your ovne Stonor.    | <- signature
|                                                             |
|     To my Cosyn Jane Stonor, in hast.                       | <- salutation
 --------------------------------------------------------------
   
           or this:
          
--------------------------------------------------------------
| No mor to you nowe, but Jhesu kepe you. Wreten at London   |
| the xj day of Marche.                                      |
|                                                  H. S.     | <-signature
|                                                            |
|     To my worshipfull brother, Thomas Stonor, esquyer.     | <-salutation
--------------------------------------------------------------
   
           The signature is set on a line of its own, indented
           far to the right. The salutation also occupies a 
           line or lines of its own, and is slightly indented
           relative to the body of the letter.
   
           The signature should be tagged with <SIGNED>
           The salutation should be tagged with <SALUTE>
           If they cannot be clearly identified, simply tag both
           of them as separate paragraphs (<P>).

HEADNOTES. All or most of the items have a note at the top, ranging
           from a few words to a few paragraphs. Record these as
           <NOTE PLACE="head">, placing the tag at the end of the 
           <HEAD> to the item.
           
ABSTRACTs. Some items are not printed, simply represented by an abstract
           beginning with the word "ABSTRACT." all in caps. Record
           this material with the element <ARGUMENT>.

Notes

   Aside from the headnotes, most notes appear as standard footnotes,
   keyed to the text by superscript footnote numbers. Treat these
   in the usual way as <NOTE PLACE="foot">