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FWD: MANCASS C11 Database, a tool for studying scripts and spellings in eleventh-century England
by Daniel O'Donnell 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

Hello all, I don't think this has been posted on dm-l yet: The Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies is pleased to announce the availability of the MANCASS C11 Database, a tool for studying scripts and spellings in eleventh-century England. The database is now accessible at: http://www.art.man.ac.uk/english/mancass/ data/index.htm or visit http://www.man.ac.uk and search for ‘MANCASS’, then follow the link to the ‘C11 Database’. The database is the outcome of a three-year AHRB-funded research project headed by Professor Donald Scragg with Dr Alex Rumble. This freely accessible database allows users to search a body of material from eleventh-century manuscripts for particular spellings and spelling variants and to determine when and in what context they were used. It also contains searchable information about scribes and hands found in eleventh-century manuscripts. The version of the database currently available is a public beta version; please report any errors to the site's webmaster via a link provided on the site. In the coming months, we will continue to upload more eleventh-century material into the database and will also add more material to the website providing guidance on its contents and use. In the meantime, if you have questions or comments, don't hesitate to contact either Don Scragg (don.scragg(a)man.ac.uk) or myself (kathryn.e.powell(a)man.ac.uk). We hope you will find the database a useful resource. On behalf of the project team, Kathryn Powell Research Fellow Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL UK (+44) 0161 275 3157 kathryn.e.powell(a)man.ac.uk http://homepage.mac.com/kapowe -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/>

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Fwd: Hi guy
by Patrick Conner 31 Jul '04

31 Jul '04

I send this for Bernard Muir, who has received the list's comments on the E-EB. --Pat Patrick W. Conner, Director West Virginia University Press P.O. Box 6295, West Virginia Univ. Morgantown, WV 26506-6295 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Voice: 304.293.8400 x4505 Fax: 304.293.5380 Email: pconner(a)wvu.edu Web page: www.wvupress.com

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CFP: Technology at Kzoo
by Dorothy C. Porter 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IN MEDIEVAL SCHOLARSHIP sessions (I and II): Sponsored by the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities, University of Kentucky International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 5-8, 2005 Paper submissions are invited on the topic of advanced technology in medieval scholarship. Proposals dealing with new uses of technology for academic research are eligible, as are proposals dealing with the development of such technologies. Possible subject matter might include, but is not limited to, the following: databases, imaging, statistical analysis, dictionaries/glossaries, online resources, library tools, etc. Send abstracts or queries to Dot Porter by email at dporter(a)uky.edu, or by surface mail at the following address: Dorothy Carr Porter Research in Computing for Humanities 3-51/3-52 William T. Young Library University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0456 If you send an abstract by surface mail, include your email address so we can confirm receipt of your submission. Submission deadline is Sept. 15, 2004. *************************************** Dorothy Carr Porter, Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities University of Kentucky 351 William T. Young Library Lexington, KY 40506 dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-9549 ***************************************

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Thanks for generosity and keep up the good work
by Daniel O'Donnell 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

Hello all, I would like to thank all participants (we are a couple short of 200) for the great generosity they have shown in sharing software, techniques, and examples, on this list in its short life. This is exactly what I'd been hoping would happen, and I am pleased to see the very generous participation we have had. We are testing the website right now and with some luck will have it up in the next couple of weeks. This will allow us to build a FAQ and begin to formalise our collective experience. If you have tools, software, or techniques that you are willing to describe formally, may I suggest the forthcoming Digital Medievalist Journal? This might be an excellent forum for a brief description of your work. Cheers, -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. +1 (403) 329-2377 Fax. +1 (403) 382-7191

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Full text searching and Medieval languages
by David M. Mimno 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Here's some more detail on full-text searching using Lucene, which I promised several weeks ago. I've tried to focus on the aspects relevant to digital medievalists. Links to code are at the end. The Lucene FAQ provides technical detail on object models and APIs more accurately and succinctly than I probably could: http://lucene.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/faq/faqmanager.cgi First, here's a demo version of our Lucene-based search engine working on a collection of Classical Latin: http://vermont.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/searchresults.jsp?q=amo&target=la Lucene runs in two modes: indexing and searching. The indexing phase takes a set of "documents", such as a list of web pages or a directory of text files. This happens "off-line", every day or so. The searching phase occurs when someone types in a query. Lucene consults the index files and returns a list of documents that match the query. Order of Search Results By default, Lucene ranks matching documents using the following formula: the percentage of terms in the document that were search terms. This tends to favor short documents. It looks like it's possible to specify a sort order at index-time, but I haven't experimented with that feature yet. Lemmatization One factor that is very important for full-text searching languages like Latin, Old English, and Old Norse is word inflections. You need to be able to connect "amo" with "amabitur" and "amantes". We have approached this problem by caching a morphological analysis of every word that appears in the language corpus. The result is a mapping of inflected forms to dictionary lemmas. There are several ways to use this linguistic data, but the most effective (I've found) is to index the documents in their original, inflected form, and expand the query. In other words, if someone searches for the string "amo", the search wrapper program first lemmatizes the query ("amo#1"), then gathers all the known inflected forms of "amo#1" and joins them into one new query. You can see the effective query at the bottom of the search results page linked to above. The query expansion approach turns out to be very efficient. One not-terribly- fast desktop can, in one query, search for every form of three Greek verbs and return results within seconds. Homonyms are a problem, but I've found that they are fairly easy to weed out from looking at search results. Linguistic Data for Old English? I currently have inflected form-lemma mappings for Latin. I am in contact with some folks at UCLA who have made great progress working on morphological analysis for Old Norse. Does anyone know of other resources for that language? Finally, does anyone have a resource of this sort for Old English? It seems like the data could be extracted from the parsed corpora of OE, but I don't know if the (rather restrictive) licenses would cover that sort of use. Proposal: A Medieval Google Is there any interest in a general search engine for web-accessible medieval texts? If there were a list of URLs to indexable pages (provided by OAI or something even simpler), it would just be a matter of occasionally indexing them. The ability to search all surviving Old English probably exists for CDROMs and private databases, but is it available freely and publicly? Code Samples A wrapper for the indexing functions: http://vermont.perseus.tufts.edu/public/search/Indexer.java A wrapper for query expansion: http://vermont.perseus.tufts.edu/public/search/SearchResults.java A wrapper for the actual search results: http://vermont.perseus.tufts.edu/public/search/SearchResults.java And JSP code to create a search results page: http://vermont.perseus.tufts.edu/public/search/searchresults.html

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RE: [dm-l] Re: Exeter Book CD: for free?
by Binkley, Peter 23 Jul '04

23 Jul '04

>From the point of view of a librarian, CDs are the worst way to distribute this kind of project. We've got lots of CDs purchased in the '90s on our shelves, that are now unusable due to deterioration of the media or obsoleteness of the platform. Anything that depends on current browsers will suffer the same fate before many more of us have tenure. An online source, with institutional backing that ensures it will stay online and be maintained as technology changes, is much to be prefered. I'd be willing to sacrifice a lot of functionality for the sake of permanence, since the functionality will evaporate anyway with the next generation of browsers. The ongoing institutional support has to be sufficient to re-engineer the project from time to time to keep it working with new browsers and other tools as yet unimagined, which is no small commitment. It makes sense therefore to avoid doing one-off development and instead develop standard tools and protocols for presenting these projects. Peter Binkley Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian Information Technology Services 4-30 Cameron Library University of Alberta Libraries Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2J8 Phone: (780) 492-3743 Fax: (780) 492-9243 e-mail: peter.binkley(a)ualberta.ca > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Baker [mailto:psb6m@virginia.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 06:36 AM > To: elizabeth.solopova(a)bodley.ox.ac.uk; Digital Medievalist > Community mailing list > Subject: Re: [dm-l] Re: Exeter Book CD: for free? > > > Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call > for papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm > ---------------- > Thanks for this clarification, Elizabeth. I was very excited > to find the > Bod's images site just as I was preparing to teach Exodus to my grad. > seminar last spring. What the Bod is doing here seems a good > solution: > the images are available for free; you can get an accurate > text of the > Junius poems free too. But the CD adds value for those > willing and able > to pony up the (perfectly reasonable) £50. > > Well, it adds value for most. Not for me, since I run Linux. > Not for the > large numbers of medievalists who run Mac OS X. I think it a really > dreadful mistake to use MS's extensions to JavaScript, > forcing people to > use The Worst Browser Now Available. On the other hand, the > Dictionary > of Old English made the same mistake, so at least you're in > good company. > > Peter > > Elizabeth Solopova wrote: > > >Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call for > >papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm > >---------------- > >Dear All, > > > >The Junius 11 CD-ROM (Bodleian Digital Texts 1) was published by > >the Bodleian rather than OUP. The Bodleian supported the project > >financially (the development of software), provided the images and > >contributed to the development of the interface. All the > technical and > >academic work was done by Burnard Muir and his team. The > images published > >on the CD were already available when the work on the > project started six > >years ago: they are still available free of charge for > personal use by > >researchers via Early Manuscripts at Oxford University > >(http://image.ox.ac.uk/). The next project in the series > will be MS. Auct. > >F. 2.13 (Terence's Comedies). The images are also available > via the Early > >Manuscripts at Oxford University site. The CD-ROM works only > with Internet > >Explorer because Microsoft's implementation of JavaScript > was used (you may > >have noticed the use of JavaScript in the extract posted by > Martin). As far > >as I know Burnard Muir's team will try to overcome this > limitation in the > >next CD-ROM. > > > >Elizabeth > > > >Dr. Elizabeth Solopova > >Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts Bodleian > >Library Broad Street > >Oxford OX1 3BG > >Tel.: +44 (0)1865-277073 > >E-mail: es(a)bodley.ox.ac.uk > >Internet: > >http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ > >http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/ > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Project web site: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ > >dm-l mailing list > >dm-l(a)uleth.ca > >http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Project web site: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ > dm-l mailing list > dm-l(a)uleth.ca > http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l >

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Administration: Sorry about MIME attack; all messages with attachments will now be rejected
by Daniel O'Donnell 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

Hello all, Sorry about the three messages with attachments (please don't open them). I've now set the controls of the list so that no attachments will be distributed. This should stop the danger of viruses being passed around. I am not in Lethbridge and so can't double check, but I believe we may still get virus messages passed on if the body of the e-mail contains plain text; but they will be send without the offending attachment. If for some reason you need to post an example or would like to send an attachment, the correct etiquette is to put it on a web page somewhere and send a link. But everybody sending legitimate information thus far has done that. Once again, sorry for not anticipating the problem. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. +1 (403) 329-2377 Fax. +1 (403) 382-7191

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RE: [dm-l] Re: Bits vs. atoms
by Binkley, Peter 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

You can, if your license allows, and you have the facilities and staff time to set it up and figure out which CDs are worth treating this way (you probably don't have the capacity to do it for every back-of-the-book cd); but it still doesn't solve the problem of CDs that require a particular client software to run on the workstation, or that only work with Netscape 3.0 ... Standards will certainly help; but I suspect that projects with lots of interactivity and all the bells and whistles will still need to be tweaked as new generations of browsers come along, no matter how carefully they attempt to comply with current standards. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Martin K. Foys To: Digital Medievalist Community mailing list Sent: 7/20/2004 4:36 PM Subject: Re: [dm-l] Re: Bits vs. atoms Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call for papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm ---------------- Sure, sure. But can't you archive most of the CDs, and even run them in network environments, once you have purchased them? ~ Martin Foys On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:14:30 -0600 "Binkley, Peter" <Peter.Binkley(a)ualberta.ca> wrote: > Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call for > papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm > ---------------- > >From the point of view of a librarian, CDs are the worst way to > >distribute > this kind of project. We've got lots of CDs purchased in the '90s on > our > shelves, that are now unusable due to deterioration of the media or > obsoleteness of the platform. Anything that depends on current > browsers will > suffer the same fate before many more of us have tenure. An online > source, > with institutional backing that ensures it will stay online and be > maintained as technology changes, is much to be prefered. I'd be > willing to > sacrifice a lot of functionality for the sake of permanence, since > the > functionality will evaporate anyway with the next generation of > browsers. > The ongoing institutional support has to be sufficient to > re-engineer the > project from time to time to keep it working with new browsers and > other > tools as yet unimagined, which is no small commitment. It makes > sense > therefore to avoid doing one-off development and instead develop > standard > tools and protocols for presenting these projects. > > Peter Binkley > Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian > Information Technology Services > 4-30 Cameron Library > University of Alberta Libraries > Edmonton, Alberta > Canada T6G 2J8 > Phone: (780) 492-3743 > Fax: (780) 492-9243 > e-mail: peter.binkley(a)ualberta.ca > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Peter Baker [mailto:psb6m@virginia.edu] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 06:36 AM > > To: elizabeth.solopova(a)bodley.ox.ac.uk; Digital Medievalist > > Community mailing list > > Subject: Re: [dm-l] Re: Exeter Book CD: for free? > > > > > > Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call > > for papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm > > ---------------- > > Thanks for this clarification, Elizabeth. I was very excited > > to find the > > Bod's images site just as I was preparing to teach Exodus to my > >grad. > > seminar last spring. What the Bod is doing here seems a good > > solution: > > the images are available for free; you can get an accurate > > text of the > > Junius poems free too. But the CD adds value for those > > willing and able > > to pony up the (perfectly reasonable) £50. > > > > Well, it adds value for most. Not for me, since I run Linux. > > Not for the > > large numbers of medievalists who run Mac OS X. I think it a really > > dreadful mistake to use MS's extensions to JavaScript, > > forcing people to > > use The Worst Browser Now Available. On the other hand, the > > Dictionary > > of Old English made the same mistake, so at least you're in > > good company. > > > > Peter > > > > Elizabeth Solopova wrote: > > > > >Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call for > > >papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm > > >---------------- > > >Dear All, > > > > > >The Junius 11 CD-ROM (Bodleian Digital Texts 1) was published by > > >the Bodleian rather than OUP. The Bodleian supported the project > > >financially (the development of software), provided the images and > > >contributed to the development of the interface. All the > > technical and > > >academic work was done by Burnard Muir and his team. The > > images published > > >on the CD were already available when the work on the > > project started six > > >years ago: they are still available free of charge for > > personal use by > > >researchers via Early Manuscripts at Oxford University > > >(http://image.ox.ac.uk/). The next project in the series > > will be MS. Auct. > > >F. 2.13 (Terence's Comedies). The images are also available > > via the Early > > >Manuscripts at Oxford University site. The CD-ROM works only > > with Internet > > >Explorer because Microsoft's implementation of JavaScript > > was used (you may > > >have noticed the use of JavaScript in the extract posted by > > Martin). As far > > >as I know Burnard Muir's team will try to overcome this > > limitation in the > > >next CD-ROM. > > > > > >Elizabeth > > > > > >Dr. Elizabeth Solopova > > >Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts Bodleian > > >Library Broad Street > > >Oxford OX1 3BG > > >Tel.: +44 (0)1865-277073 > > >E-mail: es(a)bodley.ox.ac.uk > > >Internet: > > >http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ > > >http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Project web site: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ > > >dm-l mailing list > > >dm-l(a)uleth.ca > > >http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Project web site: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ > > dm-l mailing list > > dm-l(a)uleth.ca > > http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Project web site: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ > dm-l mailing list > dm-l(a)uleth.ca > http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Martin K. Foys Assistant Professor Department of English Hood College Frederick, MD 21701 vox: 301~696~3740 fax: 301~696~3586 ether: foys(a)hood.edu Bayeux Tapestry Digital Edition, Choice 2004 Outstanding Academic Title: http://www.boydell.co.uk/choice.htm _______________________________________________ Project web site: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ dm-l mailing list dm-l(a)uleth.ca http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l

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Re: [dm-l] Re: Exeter Book CD: for free?
by Barbara Bordalejo 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

I am sorry to have to say this, but why do people assume that because a book is in electronic format it should be free? I find it very strange than even those familiar with the work that goes into electronic publications would suggest that it should be free of charge. The site about Open Access referred to by Klaus is clearly intended for journals and similar publications, not for works as the Exeter CD. Indeed, I cannot imagine approaching Andy Orchard, for example, and saying, "I always wanted to buy _Pride and Prodigies_, but it is too expensive, could I have it for free?" This is the kind of publication we are talking about, not articles in journals; but incredibly complex publications that, more often than not, require the cooperation of a team of people. Those who think that publishing on the internet is free should take into account costs such as maintenance and upgrading. Someone has to care for the texts on the internet for these to remain available. In some cases, without university support, a private individual will even have to pay for the space on the internet. Of course we all want more access to primary materials and libraries are doing a good job digitizing their books, making them available and maintaining the sites. We should be happy that we can count on this and stop trying to get everything for free. Best, Barbara Bordalejo ----- Original Message ----- From: Klaus Graf <klaus.graf(a)geschichte.uni-freiburg.de> Date: Monday, July 19, 2004 4:20 pm Subject: [dm-l] Re: Exeter Book CD > Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call for > papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm > ---------------- > In my opinion an Open Acess web page with the digitized > Exter book in reasonable quality would be better than any > CD. > > Klaus Graf > -- > PS: What is Open Access: > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm > > _______________________________________________ > Project web site: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ > dm-l mailing list > dm-l(a)uleth.ca > http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l >

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Re: [dm-l] Re: Exeter Book CD: for free?
by James Cummings 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Peter Baker wrote: > Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call for papers: > http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm > ---------------- > Thanks for this clarification, Elizabeth. I was very excited to find the Bod's > images site just as I was preparing to teach Exodus to my grad. seminar last > spring. What the Bod is doing here seems a good solution: the images are > available for free; you can get an accurate text of the Junius poems free too. > But the CD adds value for those willing and able to pony up the (perfectly > reasonable) �50. > > Well, it adds value for most. Not for me, since I run Linux. Not for the large > numbers of medievalists who run Mac OS X. I think it a really dreadful mistake > to use MS's extensions to JavaScript, forcing people to use The Worst Browser > Now Available. On the other hand, the Dictionary of Old English made the same > mistake, so at least you're in good company. Just a note that the Toronto Dictionary of Old English Complete Corpus is available for free from the Oxford Text Archive. As is the York-Toronto-Helsinki parsed corpus of Old English prose. (You must complete a form for these resources though.). -James > > Peter > > Elizabeth Solopova wrote: > > > Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call for papers: > > http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm > > ---------------- > > Dear All, > > > > The Junius 11 CD-ROM (Bodleian Digital Texts 1) was published by the > > Bodleian rather than OUP. The Bodleian supported the project financially > > (the development of software), provided the images and contributed to the > > development of the interface. All the technical and academic work was done > > by Burnard Muir and his team. The images published on the CD were already > > available when the work on the project started six years ago: they are still > > available free of charge for personal use by researchers via Early > > Manuscripts at Oxford University (http://image.ox.ac.uk/). The next project > > in the series will be MS. Auct. F. 2.13 (Terence's Comedies). The images are > > also available via the Early Manuscripts at Oxford University site. The > > CD-ROM works only with Internet Explorer because Microsoft's implementation > > of JavaScript was used (you may have noticed the use of JavaScript in the > > extract posted by Martin). As far as I know Burnard Muir's team will try to > > overcome this limitation in the next CD-ROM. > > > > Elizabeth > > > > Dr. Elizabeth Solopova > > Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts > > Bodleian Library > > Broad Street > > Oxford OX1 3BG > > Tel.: +44 (0)1865-277073 > > E-mail: es(a)bodley.ox.ac.uk > > Internet: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ > > http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/ > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Project web site: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ > > dm-l mailing list > > dm-l(a)uleth.ca > > http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Project web site: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ > dm-l mailing list > dm-l(a)uleth.ca > http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l > > --- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk

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