Guidelines for Transcription of the Manuscripts of the Wife of Bath's Prologue

Author / Editor
Robinson, Peter,and Elizabeth Solopova.

Title
Guidelines for Transcription of the Manuscripts of the Wife of Bath's Prologue

Published
Norman Blake and Peter Robinson, eds. The 'Canterbury Tales' Project Occasional Papers, Volume I (Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication Publications, 1993), pp. 19-52.

Description
Articulates the principles of manuscript transcription for the "Canterbury Tales" Project, theorizing about the potential and limitations of transcribing for machine-readable publication and explaining why "graphemic" transcription (rather than "graphic," "graphetic," or "regularized" transcription) is the aim of the project. Describes and illustrates the practice of transcription, including treatment of individual characters, flourishes, abbreviations, capitals, and punctuation.

Contributor
Solopova, Elizabeth

Alternative Title
The 'Canterbury Tales' Project Occasional Papers, Volume I.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.