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British Literary Manuscripts Online
Facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials.
Searching is based on tags and descriptive text associated with each manuscript. Images of the complete manuscript can be viewed, manipulated and navigated on screen. Please note that the text of the manuscripts themselves is not searchable.
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Chaucer : the general prologue on CD-ROM
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1868.P8 S65 2000
"Contains transcripts, descriptions, and images of all 53 fifteenth-century manuscripts and early printed editions of The General Prologue. The texts of
witnesses may be compared through full word-by-word collations in both original spelling and regularized form. Spelling databases permit the spelling of every grammatical form of each word to be examined in any manuscript, or across all manuscripts, for some 300,000 words in total. Sophisticated search tools, which make full use of SGML encoding, allow retrieval of words, phrases, and many textual features."--Container.
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Digital Domesday Book
Mode of access: Available only from Hesburgh Library public access computers. Path in XP: Start/Library and Information Resources/All Titles A-Z/Digital Domesday.
Call Number: LIBNT XP Electronic DA 190 .D7 D55 2002
Includes all 888 folios from the Great and Little Domesday; the Alecto line-by-line translations, matched to the original text; the Alecto indexes of people
and of places, including map references; the Farley transcription of 1783; a general introduction; the Alecto County Edition introductions to each Domesday county; 16 special studies on different aspects of medieval life; a glossary and a comprehensive bibliography.
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Electronic Beowulf
Mode of access: CD-ROMs in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1580 .K47 1999
Contains an image-based edition of Beowulf, the greatest Old English poem surviving in the British Library in a composite codex known as Cotton Ms. Vitellius
A. xv.
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Emily Dickinson's correspondences
"This XML-based archive brings together seventy-four poems and letters from Emily's correspondence with her sister-in-law and primary confidante, Susan
Dickinson. Each text is presented with a digitized scan of the holograph manuscript."--Home page.
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Exeter anthology of old English poetry
Mode of access: DVD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1490 .A2 M853 2006
Contains facsimile pages of the complete manuscript of Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501 (the "Exeter Book") with Bernard J. Muir's complete critical edition
(rev. 2nd ed.). Allows comparison of original manuscript and transcripts and access to hyperlinked commentaries and bibliographies. Animated video clip recounts history of the manuscript.
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Life of Saint Wilfrid by Edmer
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
Call Number: MEDIN 715 Electronic BX 4700 .W5 E3413 1998a
"This is an electronic edition of Edmer's twelfth century Vita Sancti Wilfridi. It includes a full photographic facsimile of a little known witness from
the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery in Victoria, Australia -- MS Crouch 10. It considers all known manuscript witnesses in its apparatus and includes a full study of the printed tradition in its introduction and commentary ..."--Publisher's description.
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Manuscript women's letters and diaries
"... brings together 100,000 pages [when complete] of the personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, displayed as high-quality images
of the original manuscripts, extensively indexed and online for the first time."--Home page.
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Parker Library on the web
An interactive, web-based workspace designed to support use and study of the manuscripts in the historic Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
The Parker Library's holdings of Old English texts accounts for nearly a quarter of all extant manuscripts in Anglo-Saxon, including the earliest copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (c. 890), the Old English Bede and King Alfred's translation of Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care. Also contains one of the finest copies of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.
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Piers Plowman electronic archive
Call Number: HESB RES PR 2015 .P54 2000
"The long-range goal of the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive is the creation of a multi-level, hyper-textually linked electronic archive of the textual
tradition of all three versions of the fourteenth-century allegorical dream vision Piers Plowman."--1994 Prospectus: Archive Goals.
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Scientific and medical writing in Old and Middle English
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 231 .V654 2000
Provides information on more than 8,500 texts from the earliest significant body of technical and learned writing in English. Features citations to Old
and Middle English manuscripts found in American and British museums and libraries.
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Vernon manuscript (see Facsimile edition of the Vernon manuscript)
Provides access to over 350 Middle English texts, among them "Piers Plowman", "The Ancrene Riwle", "The South English Legendary", "The Prick of Conscience",
and " The Miracles of the Virgin". Contains a full facsimile with images of each page of the manuscript, visible at high magnification, and a complete 'live' transcription of the text with hyperlinks allowing for powerful global searches across the entire text.
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Virginia Woolf
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 6045 .O72 1997
"The complete works of Virginia Woolf including variant and hard-to-find editions. Over 12,000 manuscript images from the Henry W and Albert A. Berg Collection
at the New York Public Library and the Monks House Papers at the University of Sussex"--Portfolio.
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Wife of Bath's prologue
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1868 .W654 R63 1996
Provides a transcription of all 58 15th-century witnesses to The wife of Bath's prologue, with word-by-word collation of the witnesses, digital images
of all pages transcribed, transcriptions of glosses, descriptions of the witnesses, and spelling databases.
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