[Announcement by Paul
Schaffner forwarded from another medieval list. This is a wonderful
expansion of a digital library of primary sources. Cheers, Al Magary]
With apologies for cross-posting.
The University of Michigan's freely accessible 'Corpus of Middle
English prose and verse' more than doubled in size over the weekend.
The additions are all in full text, transcribed from modern editions.
Most are also linked page-by-page to page images of the editions from
which they were taken, so you can always go back to check the
transcription
against the actual page of the print. Most front and back matter is
omitted from the transcription (in order to maximize the amount of
actual Middle English that we could produce), but the entire book was
scanned in most cases, and can be read online in page-image form.
A brief list of the 146 books in the CME can be found here:
http://www.hti.umich.edu/c/cme/browse.html
And here is the blurb from the 'what's new' page:
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
http://www.hti.umich.edu/c/cme/
To the 62 searchable texts of the original CME have now been added 85
additional texts, many of them among the largest and most significant
monuments of Middle English, including the earlier and later versions
of the Wycliffite Bible, Trevisa's and the anonymous
translations of Higden's Polychronicon, Cursor Mundi, both versions
of Guy of Warwick, the chronicles of Robert Mannyng and Robert of
Gloucester, two versions of Mandeville's travels, Hoccleve's
Regiment of Princes, the A, B, and C texts of Piers Plowman in
Skeat's edition, the Pricke of Conscience, the Ormulum, and numerous
saints' legends, including the Laud MS of the South English Legendary.
The new texts also include the complete Chaucer Society '8-text'
single-MS transcriptions of the Canterbury Tales. The bulk of
these additional texts, transcribed from modern editions, were produced
during 2000 thanks to a generous grant from the Gladys Krieble
Delmas Foundation.
One text of the original CME (Marion Glasscoe's edition of Julian of
Norwich, obtained from the Oxford Text Archive) has been removed at the
request of its present publisher. Our apologies to those who have
linked to this text; they should remove their link.
These texts have been in the queue to go online for five years,
and their appearance coincides with some major changes to our
retrieval and display system: we would appreciate hearing about
any problems you may encounter using them.
pfs
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