From the manuscript to the screen: Implementing electronic editions of mediaeval handwritten material
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2010
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Adam Mickiewicz University
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This paper describes the electronic editing of the Middle English material housed in the Hunterian
Collection at Glasgow University Library (GUL), a joint project undertaken by the universities of
Málaga, Glasgow, Oviedo, Murcia and Jaén which pursues the compilation of an electronic corpus
of mediaeval Fachprosa in the vernacular (http://hunter.filosofia.uma.es/manuscripts). The paper
therefore addresses the concept of electronic editing as applied to The corpus of Late Middle English
scientific prose with the following objectives: (a) to describe the editorial principles and the theoretical
implications adopted; and (b) to present the digital layout and the tool implemented for data
retrieval. A diplomatic approach is then proposed wherein the editorial intervention is kept to a
minimum. Accordingly, features such as lineation, punctuation and emendations are every now and
then accurately reproduced as by the scribe’s hand whilst abbreviations are yet expanded in italics.
GUL MS Hunter 497, holding a 15th-century English version of Aemilius Macer’s De viribus herbarum,
will be used as a sample demonstration (Calle-Martín – Miranda-García, forthcoming).
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The present research has been funded by the Autonomous Government of Andalusia (project
P07-HUM–02609) and by the Spanish Ministry of Education (project FFI2008-02336).
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 46.3 (2010), pp. 3-20