Fordham Finn wrote:
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> Interesting question - or questions - since are we talking facsimile or
> fasimile edition?
I've no answer on the discussion of early facsimile editions, but it
reminded me of something else that might be of interest to others.
For those interested in electronic markup of textual editions, the Text
Encoding Initiative recently released a major version update to its
Guidelines (TEI P5 version 1.0). The reason I mention this here and now is
because of the addition of a <facsimile> element to represent "some written
source in the form of a set of images rather than as transcribed or encoded
text". So one can now do textual editions, text+image editions, or solely
image facsimiles all in the TEI. There is also the capability to link any
textual element to a particular image or zone on an image, which may be
especially of interest to those who do image annotation or like to
highlight parts of an image when you hover a mouse over a bit of text. For
those interested you can read more about it in the substantially revised
chapter on the Representation of Primary Sources at
http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/PH.html
Apologies to those not interested in electronic facsimiles.
Best,
-James
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Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk
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