WORKING FILES INDEX

This directory contains files used to document the creation of the components of the Middle English Compendium project, chiefly the electronic Middle English Dictionary, the attached Hyperbibliography (a linked and expanded version of the MED's working bibliography), and the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. These are working files not intended for public distribution.

Files available now or shortly include those listed on the "jumps" list below, plus some individual files referenced on the subordinate levels of this directory.

Revised/pfs 25 April 2000
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JUMPS

MEC links

General Panorama and SGML management

Hyperbibliography of Middle English (HB) links

Electronic Middle English Dictionary (e-MED) links

Corpus of Middle English (CME) links

Top-level CME public-access page
Internal documents (staff use)
- Some proposed Texts to be added from public domain editions.
- Master list of CME items in progress.
- CME book project: processing overview.
- How to write book-by-book specs
- How to process bound items
- How to process text data
- CME tag-reviewers' guidelines (by John Latta)
External documents (vendor and staff use)
- Master table of CME items in Installment 1
- Master table of items potentially in future installments of CME.
- (Same possible items, arranged as simple list)
- Keying/Coding guidelines for CME texts.
- Illustrations to accompany the Keying/Coding Guidelines.
- Illustrations (2) to accompany the Keying/Coding Guidelines.
- "Vendor dtd" for outsourced text encoding (text version).
- Current version of the e-MED character entities file
- Samples of text encoded using vendor.dtd.
- Proof-reading log
- BOOK-BY-BOOK KEYING/CODING INSTRUCTIONS:
  First disk (cd-rom) [as burned/shipped]
  - Book AA: ID#AHA2659 (Stanzaic Morte)
  - Book AB: ID#BAU0088 (William of Shoreham Poems)
  - Book AC: ID#AHA2740 (Oseney Register)
  - Book AD: ID#AHA2738 (Godstow Register)
  - Book AE: ID#APE7380 (Alliterative Destruction of Troy)
  - Book AF: ID#AHA2626 (Havelok)
  - Book AG: ID#AFW5744 (Ormulum)
  - Book AH: ID#AEH6713 (Select Works of Wyclif)
  - Book AI: ID#BAA8159 (English Prose Psalter)
  - Book AK: ID#AJT8111 (Lydgate Pilgrimage)
  - Book AL: ID#ANZ2316 (Beues of Hampton)
  - Book AM: ID#ACM9160 (Lollard Apology)
  - Book AN: ID#ACV5981 (English Chronicle, ed. Davies)
  Second disk (cd-rom) [as burned/shipped]
  - Book AJ: ID#AHB1378 (Robert of Gloucester Chronicle)
  - Book AO: ID#ACB1675 (Iacob and Iosep)
  - Book AP: ID#ADQ4048 (Hoccleve Reg.Princ.)
  - Book AQ: ID#AJD3529 (Book of Brome)
  - Book AR: ID#AHA2735 (Mannyng Handlyng Synne)
  - Book AS: ID#APE9595 (Laud Troy Book)
  - Book AT: ID#AFY7823 (Altenglische Legenden [1875])
  - Book AU: ID#AJD8171 (Sammlung altenglischer Legenden [1878])
  - Book AV: ID#AAW7316 (Vision of Tundale)
  - Book AW: ID#APA1967 (Wars of Alexander)
  - Book AX: ID#AHA2708 (South English Legendary)
  - Book AY: ID#APE7335 (Vernon MS Minor Poems 1-2)
  - Book AZ: ID#AHA2700 (Joseph of Aramathie)
  - Book BA: ID#BAU1376 (Pricke of Conscience)
  - Book BB: ID#AHB1325 (Pecock Repressor)
  - Book BD: ID#AHA2706 (Generides(2))
  - Book BE: ID#AHA2702 (Legends of the Rood)
  Third disk (cd-rom) [as burned/shipped]
  - Book BF: ID#AHA2688 (Old Engl.Homilies(1))
  - Book BG: ID#AHA2705 (Old Engl.Homilies(2))
  - Book BM: ID#AFZ9170 (Bible [Forshall & Madden])
  Fourth disk (cd-rom) [as burned/shipped]
  - Book BC: ID#AJT8128 (Cursor Mundi)
  - Book BH: ID#AHA2638 (Guy of Warwick [14th-c.])
  - Book BI: ID#ANZ4364 (Guy of Warwick [15th-c.])
  - Book BJ: ID#ANY9948 (Lydgate Reson & S.)
  - Book BK: ID#AFW1075 (Charters of Christ)
  - Book BL: ID#AJG4507 (Bible [Paues])
  - Book BP: ID#AFB3713 (Wyclif Works [ed.Arnold, v.1])
  - Book BQ: ID#AJT8124 (Piers Plowman A-B-C [ed.Skeat])
  - Book BR: ID#AJF7399 (Rolle Psalter)
  - Book BS: ID#ACN1637 (King Horn [ed.Hall])
  - Book BT: ID#AHB1379 (Mannyng Chronicle pt.1 [ed.Furnivall])
  - Book BU: ID#ACA1723 (Stonor Letters)
  - Book BV: ID#AJE0623 (St.Editha)
  Fifth disk (cd-rom) [as burned/shipped]
  - Book BO: ID#AHB1341 (Higden Polychronicon [ME trs.])
  - Book BW: ID#ACS0188 (Purity [ed.Menner])
  - Book BX: ID#AEW3422 (Fortescue Gov.England)
  - Book BY: ID#AGV8488 (Winteney Ben.Rule)
  - Book BZ: ID#AHA6127 (Babees Bk.,etc.)
  - Book CA: ID#ABA2053 (Mannyng Chronicle pt.2 [ed.Hearne])
  - Book CB: ID#ALT5980 (Scottish Alliterative Poems)
  - Book CC: ID#AJH1649 (Pecock Book of Faith)
  Sixth disk (cd-rom) [as burned/shipped]
  - Book BN: ID#AFW1383 (Altenglische Legenden, neue Folge [1881])
  - Book CD: ID#AJT2514 (Kildare Gedichte)
  - Book CE: ID#AHA6129 (Old English Miscellany)
  - Book CF: ID#ACW2946 (Assembly of Gods)
  - Book CG: ID#APE9594 (Twenty-six poems [Kail])
  - Book CH: ID#AFY7793 (Harl.2253 [Böddeker])
  - Book CI: ID#AGZ8233 (Chaucer Cant.Tales (Hengwrt))
  - Book CJ: ID#AGZ8232 (Chaucer Cant.Tales (Ellesmere))
  - Book CK: ID#AGZ8236 (Chaucer Cant.Tales (Lansdowne))
  - Book CL: ID#ASH2689 (Chaucer Cant.Tales (Petworth))
  - Book CM: ID#ASH3725 (Chaucer Cant.Tales (CUL Dd))
  - Book CN: ID#AGZ8246 (Chaucer Cant.Tales (Hrl 7334))
  - Book CO: ID#AGZ8234 (Chaucer Cant.Tales (CUL Gg))
  - Book CP: ID#AGZ8235 (Chaucer Cant.Tales (Corpus Oxf.)
  - Book CQ: ID#ANT9912 (Polit., Relig., Love Poems [Furnivall])
  - Book CR: ID#AGD2855 (ME Humorous Tales)
  - Book CS: ID#AHA2711 (Adam Davy's Dreams)
  - Book CT: ID#ANT9911 (Hymns to the Virgin)
  [End of 1999-2000 installment 1 of CME]
  
  Seventh disk [deferred till next CME installment, tentative list]
  - Article NA: ID#BAU1377 (Horstmann "Nachträge" Archiv 62-8-74-9-80)
  - Article NB: ID#BAU1375 (Horstmann "Evangelien-geschichten" Archiv 57)
  - Article NC: ID#BAU1378 (Horstmann "Proprium Sanctorum" Archiv 81)
  - Article ND: ID#BAU1372 (Horstmann "Orologium Sapientie" Anglia 10)
  - Article NE: ID#BAU1374 (Horstmann "Prosalegenden" Anglia 3)
  - Article NF: ID#BAU1373 (Horstmann "Prosalegenden..Dc.114" Anglia 8)
  - Article NG: ID#BAU1379 (Kölbing "Theophilussage" Englische Studien 1)
  - Article NH: ID#BAU1380 (Kölbing "Patriks Purgatorium" Englische Studien 1)
  - Article NI: ID#BAU9475 (Mather "Ponthus and Sidone" PMLA 12)
  - Article NJ: ID#BAU9481 (D'Evelyn "Methodius" PMLA 33)
  - Article NK: ID#BAU9468 (MacCracken "Magnificencia Ecclesie" PMLA 24)
  - Article NL: ID#BAU9489 (Heuser "Spalding's Katherine" Anglia 30)
  - Article NM: ID#BAU9485 (Paues "Poema Morale" Anglia 30)
  - Article NN: ID#BAU9494 (Fischer "Vindicta Salvatoris" Archiv 111-12)
  - Article NO: ID#BAV3573 (Hammond "Lydgate Tapestry Poems" Englische Studien 43)
  - Article NP: ID#BAV3562 (Root "Poems Garrett MS." Englische Studien 41)
  - Article NQ: ID#BAV3558 (Förster "Cato" Englische Studien 36)
  - Article NR: ID#BAV3552 (Heuser "Theophilussage" Englische Studien 32)
  - Article NS: ID#BAV3532 (Hall "Galba E.9" Englische Studien 21)
  - Article NT: ID#BAV3525 (Kaluza "Kleinere Publ." Englische Studien 14)
  - Article NU: ID#BAV3523 (Campbell "Evangelie" PMLA 30)
  - Article NV: ID#BAV3514 (MacCracken "English Friend" PMLA 26)
  - Article NW: ID#BAV3513 (Horstmann "Bod.779 S.Leg." Archiv 82)
  - Article NX: ID#BAV3512 (Brie "Zwei Prosaromane" Archiv 130)
  - Article NY: ID#BAV3511 (Hübner "Desert of Religion" Archiv 126)
  - Article NZ: ID#BAV3510 (Zupitza "Proverbs of Wisdom" Archiv 90)
  - Article OA: ID#BAV3509 (Zupitza "Iak and his Stepdame" Archiv 90)
  - Article OB: ID#BAV4357 (Garrett "Medical Treatise" Anglia 34)
  - Article OC: ID#BAV4358 (Borgström "Lichfield Complaint" Anglia 34)
  - Article OD: ID#BAV4356 (Horstmann "Celestin and Susannah" Anglia 1)
  - Article OE: ID#BAV4363 (Horstmann "Prosalegenden..Antonius" Anglia 4)
  - Article OF: ID#BAV4379 (Hammond "Eye and Heart" Anglia 34)
  - Article OG: ID#BAV4372 (Garrett "Ars Lacrimandi" Anglia 32)
  - Article OH: ID#BAV4366 (Varnhagen "Sprichwörtern Hendings" Anglia 4)
  - Article OI: ID#BAV3575 (Zupitza "Poema Morale" Anglia 1)
  - Article OJ: ID#BAV4394 (Heuser "With O and I" Anglia 27)
  - Article OK: ID#BAV4375 (Hammond "Lament of a Prisoner" Anglia 32)
  - Article OL: ID#BAV4395 (Heuser "Ave Maria" Anglia 27)
  - Article OM: ID#BAV4368 (Varnhagen "Drossel und Nachtigall" Anglia 4)
  - Article ON: ID#BAV4396 (Holthausen "Medicinische Gedichte" Anglia 18)
  - Article OO: ID#BAV4397 (Holthausen "Rezepte, segen" Anglia 19)
  - Article OP: ID#BAV4398 (Varnhagen "Signa ante Judicium" Anglia 3)
  - Article OQ: ID#BAV4399 (Varnhagen "Körper und Seele" Anglia 2)
  - Article OR: ID#BAV4424 (Bülbring "Trentalle Sancti Gregorii" Anglia 13)
  - Article OS: ID#BAV4426 (Hammond "London Lickpenny" Anglia 20)
  - Article OT: ID#BAV4427 (Padelford "Selden B.26" Anglia 36)
  - Article OU: ID#BAV4428 (Zupitza "Lydgate's Isopus" Archiv 85)
  - Article OV: ID#BAV4430 (Förster "Burgh's Cato" Archiv 115-6)
  - Article OW: ID#BAV4444 (Horstmann "St. Brendan" Archiv 53)
  - Article OX: ID#BAV4447 (Zupitza "Maria Magdalena" Archiv 91)
  - Article OY: ID#BAV4449 (MacCracken "Lydgatiana" Archiv 126-31)
  - Article OZ: ID#BAV4454 (MacCracken "Asneth" JEGP 9)
  - Article PA: ID#BAV4458 (Patterson "Sermon on Lord's Prayer" JEGP 15)
  - Book PB: ID#AHA6802 (How the Wyse Man Taught...)
  - Extract PC: ID#(n/a) (Gairdner A Short English Chronicle)
  - Book PD: ID#AKA0420 (Campbell Seven Sages of Rome)
  Eighth disk (?and ninth) [deferred till next CME installment, tentative list]
  - Book CU: ID#ACV5956 (Promptorium Parvulorum)
  - Book CV: ID#APA2992 (Ashby Poems)
  - Book CW: ID#AJT8113 (Beryn)
  - Book CX: ID#AHA6123 (Mirror of Our Lady)
  - Book CY: ID#APA1921 (Torrent of Portyngale)
  - Book CZ: ID#ACM9296 (Thornton Romances)
  - Book DA: ID#AHA2652 (Speculum Gy of Warwike)
  - Book DB: ID#AJT8121 (Lusignen or Partenay)
  - Book DC: ID#ANU0301 (Floriz, etc. [Lumby])
  - Book DD: ID#AHA2689 (Mirk Instructions for Parish Priests)
  - Book DE: ID#AHA2666 (Non-cycle Mystery Plays)
  - Book DF: ID#ACA4730 (Shillingford Letters)
  - Book DG: ID#BAC2781 (Rolle Prose Treatises)
  - Book DH: ID#ANZ4597 (Wright's Chaste Wife)
  - Book DI: ID#AHD5428 (Generides [ed. Furnivall])
  - Book DJ: ID#APA0508 (Arthur [ed. Furnivall])
  - Book DK: ID#AFW4579 ([Skeat Chauceriana])
  - Book DL: ID#ABA2059 (Robert of Gloucester Chronicle [Hearne])
  - Book DM: ID#AGD2355 ([Wright/Wülker] Vocabularies)
  - Book DN: ID#ANZ4165 (Layfolks' Mass Book)
  - Book DO: ID#AGZ0023 (Sinonoma Barth.)
  - Book DP: ID#AGZ0024 (Alphita)
  - Book DQ: ID#AGD3115 (Hall Selections)
  - Book PE: ID#ABH6132 (Hardyng Chronicle)
  - Book PF: ID#AKA0420 (Account Rolls of Durham)
  - Book PG: ID#ANY9949 (Lydgate, Siege of Thebes v.1)
  - Book PH: ID#AFB3713 (Select English Works of John Wyclif [ed. Arnold] vv.2-3)
  - Book PI: ID#ANZ4428 (Sowdone of Babylon)
  - Book PJ: ID#ACA9850 (Ipomedon)
  - Book PK: ID#AGZ8255 (Romance of the Rose [ed. Kaluza])
  - Book PL: ID#AHA6130 (Lay Folks' Catechism)
  - Book PM: ID#ADW3957 (Metrical Homilies [ed. Small])
  - Book PO: ID# [tba] (Palladius de re rustica [ed. Liddell])
  - Book PP: ID# [tba] (Sir Gowther [ed. Breul])
  - Book PQ: ID# [tba] (Early English Poems and Lives of Saints [ed. Furnivall])
  - Book PR: ID#AKA5148 (Richard [Lionheart] [ed. Brunner])
  - Book PS: ID# [tba] (Peri Didaxeon)
  - Book PT: ID# [tba] (Three Early English Metrical Romances)
  - Book PU: ID#ACS3794 (Lydgate, Serpent of Division)

Miscellaneous links

Presentations
- "ME Sources" proposal (draft notes)
- Kalamazoo '96 slides
- Kalamazoo '98 slides
- DRH '97 slides
- OED Visit 1998
- Presentations 1999: (1); (2a); (2b).
- Presentations 1999: DRH'99 (King's College London)
Resources
- ME Corpus search
- OED search
- Amer.Heritage Dict'y search
- dwr links page
- Other ME texts and text collections
- Libraries on-line
Personnel
- MEC staff and contributors: dwr | jpwilkin | mbmiller | mbonn | mcsparra | moskej | nigelk | pagliere | pfs | sooty
- MED staff: msmiller | relewis | pfloranc