To ensure complete coverage of quotations from the Asloan manuscript, supplementing quotation slips compiled by volunteer amateur readers
This is a legacy resource. It is likely to be difficult to use, and is now mainly of interest for the study of the history of text encoding or digital humanities.
Encoding format: COCOA markup references used
+ after a word indicates a pure editorialism unsupported by any original source
Text in capital letters
More details concerning transcription are available from the University of Oxford Text Archive
A = ante
B = author
C = column
CA = circa
COLOPH = colophon
D = date
DCA = date circa
E = alternative reference to other edition or title
F = folio
FN = footnote
G = stanza
H = stanza form
I = item
L = line
M = mode
MPLN = Prose, Literary, Narrative
MPLD = Prose, Literary, Didactic
MPLP = Prose, Literary, Polemic
MPRM = Record, Minutes
MPRA = Record, Accounts
MPU = Prose, Unclassified>
MRO = Verse (Ryme), Octosyllabic
MRA = Alliterative
MRCO = Colloquial verse
MRCT = Courtly verse
MRH> = Heroic couplet
MRCL = Castalian
MRU = Unclassified
MRS = Sonnet
MRL = Lyric
MRB = Ballad
N = nature of copy
O = omit (If a passage is to be skipped, esp. of Latin, in the scanning for the concordance, the first few words are given after <!O> and followed by <END OF O>)
P = page
Q = provenance
R = passage followed has been deleted in original (e.g. <R> ... <END OF R>)
S = section
T = title
TRS = transcript
V = version
VA = version A
VOL = volume