The European Library - Connecting knowledge. LEME: Lexicons of Early Modern English. Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank (MEMDB) Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric. The British Book Trade Index. Seccombe and Arber, comps. 1904. Elizabethan Sonnets. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21. Dictionary for Medieval Latin from British Sources. The Dictionary represents the Latin language as written in the British Isles and by Britons abroad from Gildas (AD 540) to Camden (1600), a canon of more than 2,300 named authors, many anonymous writers, and an archive of diplomatic and administrative documents roughly ten times the size of the literary corpus.
It illustrates a continuous tradition of thought and composition in language based upon and derived from the highest literary register of Classical and Late Latin, but also incorporating lexical and syntactic elements from the vernacular languages spoken and written in these islands, Greek, Celtic, Germanic, Romance, and Semitic. The period covered is the longest of any of the national dictionaries of Medieval Latin, the corpus the largest and most varied, and the range of other languages that left traces in Latin the greatest.
Funding sources: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Digital resource created: Institutions affiliated with this project: RISM United Kingdom. Scriptorium | Palaeographical Materials. Scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk > handwriting > palaeographical materials Palaeographical Materials Top Home | About Scriptorium| News & Events | Manuscript Collection | English Handwriting | Resources | Contact. Scriptorium | Transcription Conventions. Conventions of presentation are required to enable you accurately to represent a manuscript text, either for your own record, or when you quote from a manuscript source in scholarly work. Unless you never work without a computer you should develop a set of conventions which work both within a word processor and in your own handwriting. A transcription is not an edition; its aim is to record the appearance of the text in the manuscript.
The conventions given here are guidelines; in many cases there is a choice. Our discussion below is in parts necessarily fairly technical, and will likely require application and regular resort before it can be properly digested. Download this document, 'Basic Conventions for Transcription' (pdf, 52kb) Contraction and Abbreviation The two standard methods of abbreviation are contraction, the omission of medial letters (e.g. can't for 'cannot' or Dr for 'Doctor'); and suspension, the omission of terminal letters (e.g. etc. for 'et cetera', L. Top y, xxx Top.