The webpages at edocs.hull.ac.uk/muradora/frankthorn/domesdaybook (html version) should provide routeway to intensive analyses of 33 DB
counties by Frank and Caroline Thorn at Hull University which raise such studies to a new level, and highlight discrepencies in various
published texts, including Alecto.
David Horovitz
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>Date: 14/10/2011 10:39
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>Subj: Re: Alecto Domesday Book
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>I think you'll have to give chapter & verse on this one. Is it a case of
>the facsimile not being as clear as the original (colour, erasures not
>showing up?) The use of facsimiles was a problem that bedevilled the
>Hans Walter Gabler edition of James Joyce's "Ulysses".
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>John Briggs
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>On 14/10/2011 10:17, David Horovitz wrote:
>> Not sure whether the subject of misprints of place-names in Alecto Domesday facsimile has been raised previously. Under the belief that
the facsimile was an accurate photographic reproduction, I "corrected" for publication earlier printed DB spellings, and am surprised (to
put it mildly) to discover that the earlier spellings were apparently accurate and the facsimile is apparently incorrect. I can find no
explanation in the promotional material issued by Alecto. Does anyone happen to have more information?
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