A V or not a V? Transcribing Abbreviations in Seventeen Manuscripts of the "Man of Law's Tale" for a Digital Edition

Author / Editor
Kopaczyk, Joanna.

Title
A V or not a V? Transcribing Abbreviations in Seventeen Manuscripts of the "Man of Law's Tale" for a Digital Edition

Published
Jacob Thaisen and Hanna Rutkowska, eds. Scribes, Printers, and the Accidentals of Their Texts (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011), pp. 91-106.

Description
Identifies several difficulties in representing manuscript abbreviations digitally, focusing on graphic subscription and superscription, and drawing data from manuscripts of MLT transcribed for the "Canterbury Tales" Project.

Alternative Title
Scribes, Printers, and the Accidentals of Their Texts.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Manuscripts and Textual Studies