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INSTRUCTIONS FOR CHAUCER SOCIETY TRANSCRIPTS OF THE CANTERBURY TALES, instruction sets CI-CP.

SHORT BATCH DESIGNATION: CI
ID #AGZ8233
TITLE: The Hengwrt MS of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
KEY AND CODE THE FOLLOWING PAGES:
  1. Title page (front and back)
    = IMAGES 00000015.tif-00000016.tif

  2. Main text (excluding some contents pages)

    = pp. 1-557, 560-652.
    = IMAGES 00000027.tif-00000583.tif and
    IMAGES 00000590.tif-00000682.tif

  3. Appendix

    = app. pp. (Hengwrt) 1-30* + (6-text) pp. 548-574
    = IMAGES 00000685.tif-00000741.tif

SHORT BATCH DESIGNATION: CJ
ID #AGZ8232
TITLE: The Ellesmere MS of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
KEY AND CODE THE FOLLOWING PAGES:
  1. Title page (front and back)
    = IMAGES 00000019.tif-00000020.tif

  2. Main text (excluding some contents pages)

    = pp. 1-586, 589-681.
    = IMAGES 00000031.tif-00000616.tif and
    IMAGES 00000623.tif-00000715.tif

  3. Appendix

    = app. pp. 1-28*
    = IMAGES 00000719.tif-00000746.tif

SHORT BATCH DESIGNATION: CK
ID #AGZ8236
TITLE: The Lansdowne MS of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
KEY AND CODE THE FOLLOWING PAGES:
  1. Title page (front and back)
    = IMAGES 00000019.tif-00000020.tif

  2. Main text (excluding some contents pages)

    = pp. 1-604, 607-699.
    = IMAGES 00000029.tif-00000632.tif and
    IMAGES 00000639.tif-00000731.tif

  3. Appendix

    = app. pp. 1*-8*
    = IMAGES 00000735.tif-00000742.tif

SHORT BATCH DESIGNATION: CL
ID #ASH2689
TITLE: The Petworth MS of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
KEY AND CODE THE FOLLOWING PAGES:

  1. Title page (front and back)
    IMAGES 00000021.tif-00000022.tif

  2. Main text (excluding some contents pages)

    = pp. 1-606, 609-702.
    = IMAGES 00000031.tif-00000636.tif and
    IMAGES 00000643.tif-00000736.tif

  3. Appendix

    = app. pp. 705-710
    = IMAGES 00000739.tif-00000744.tif

SHORT BATCH DESIGNATION: CM
ID #ASH3725
TITLE: The Cambridge MS Dd.4.24 of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
KEY AND CODE THE FOLLOWING PAGES:

  1. Title page (front and back)
    = IMAGES 0000007.tif-00000008.tif

  2. Main text

    = pp. 1-678
    = IMAGES 00000023.tif-00000700.tif

  3. Appendix

    = pp. 687-688 (left columns only)
    = IMAGES 00000709.tif-00000710.tif

SHORT BATCH DESIGNATION: CN
ID #AGZ8246
TITLE: The Harleian MS 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
KEY AND CODE THE FOLLOWING PAGES:

  1. Title page (front and back)
    = IMAGES 00000003.tif-00000004.tif

  2. Main text

    = pp. 1-592, 599-691
    = IMAGES 00000013.tif-00000604.tif and
    IMAGES 00000611.tif-00000703.tif

SHORT BATCH DESIGNATION: CO
ID #AGZ8234
TITLE: The Cambridge MS Gg.4.27 of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
KEY AND CODE THE FOLLOWING PAGES:

  1. Title page (front and back)
    = IMAGES 00000015.tif-00000016.tif

  2. Main text

    = pp. 1-581, 584-676
    = IMAGES 00000017.tif-00000599.tif and
    IMAGES 00000606.tif-00000698.tif

  3. Appendix

    = app. pp. 1-26
    = IMAGES 00000699.tif-00000724.tif

SHORT BATCH DESIGNATION: CP
ID #AGZ8235
TITLE: The Corpus MS of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
KEY AND CODE THE FOLLOWING PAGES:

  1. Title page (front and back)
    = IMAGES 00000021.tif-00000022.tif

  2. Main text

    = pp. 1-602, 605-697
    = IMAGES 00000029.tif-00000630.tif and
    IMAGES 00000637.tif-00000729.tif

  3. Appendix

    = pp. 698, 1*-8*
    = IMAGES 00000733.tif-00000740.tif

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 
     (&sect;), e.g.:
     
     <DIV2 TYPE="tale">
     <HEAD>&sect; 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>&para; 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 &Verbar; 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 (=).