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What a wonderful resource, Paul-- thanks for letting us know about it!
Sherry Reames (English Dept., U. Wisconsin, Madison)
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From: "Paul F. Schaffner" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, February 27, 2006 10:17 am
Subject: [M-R] More Middle English online (x-posted)
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
> 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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