Bibliographic Information
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"The Pearl" is part of a comprehensive edition of George Herbert's English verse, The Digital Temple. This larger project includes computer-readable transcriptions, in both original- and modern-spelling versions, of Williams MS. Jones B62, Bodleian MS. Tanner 307, and a copy of The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations, first edition (Cambridge, 1633); high-resolution digital images of the sources (excepting the Latin verse in Williams); an apparatus that includes critical, textual, and technical introductions and annotations; and a user interface with which to navigate these materials.
Transcriptions are encoded in TEI(P5)-conformant XML.
Currently, only the Williams images and transcriptions are captured directly from the source. Images (where available) and transcriptions of the Bodleian MS. and first edition are captured from Scolar black-and-white facsimiles.
Apparent errors are preserved and editorial corrections provided using SIC and CORR tags, but only where the editor conjectures that the original scribe or compositor would have recognized the instance as an error. For example, what according to modern usage is incorrect subject/verb agreement might have been deemed acceptable to a seventeenth-century scribe or compositor. All such instances are treated instead using the ORIG and REG tags. (See below.)
Original spellings, abbreviations, and orthography are preserved and regularizations provided. Where in the manuscripts a character's status as majuscule or miniscule is ambiguous, the editor has silently chosen one or the other based on context and judgment (i.e., does not register such ambiguity in either the markup or the notes).
Original quotation marks, if any, are preserved.
Original hyphenation is preserved.
Textual Notes
