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T1 - Encode a Mayoral Pageant Book
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PB - University of Victoria
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Our editorial and encoding practices are documented in detail in the Praxis section of our website.
This instructional document outlines our practices for encoding diplomatic transcriptions of mayoral shows. Note about terminology: a mayoral show consists of a series of pageants staged along a pageant route. The mayoral pageant books record the pageants in the show and usually add prefatory and explanatory material. We have transcribed the pageant books. In the future, we may use the text of the pageant books for a peripatetic reconstruction of the shows.
This document is structured in four sections, representing the four main steps involved in encoding a mayoral show:
Note that these instructions presuppose that you have a diplomatic transcription of the pageant book that you will copy and paste into your XML file. They also presuppose the prior creation of an XML file that conforms with MoEML’s simple document structure, with a valid TEI header, title statement, publication statement, source description, and responsibility statements. The following instructions pertain to the encoding of the material in the
All examples come from
The aim of your first pass through a mayoral pageant book is to add mark-up to identify what Jerome McGann calls the
Tag the front matter of the pageant book using the
Tag the title page of a mayoral pageant using the
The basic template is as follows, with detailed explanations below:
Tag the mayoral pageant book title using the
The main title of a mayoral pageant book is tagged using the
If the mayoral pageant has a subtitle, tag it using the
If the mayoral pageant has an alternate title, tag it using the
If the mayoral pageant includes a description of the book or performance details, tag it using the
The byline in the pageant books is usually a line or two of text that begins with Devised and written by
or something similar. Tag this text using the
There is often a woodblock figure, a ruled line, and/or a printer’s ornament between the byline and the imprint on early modern title pages. Tag any figures using the
The imprint normally appears at the bottom of the title page, and gives information about publisher and/or printer and date and place of publication. Tag the document imprint using the
Tag the place of publication using the
Tag the publisher using the
The document date contains the date of the pageant, as given (usually) on a title page. Tag this date using the
Many mayoral pageants include an epistle dedicatory, usually addressed to the new mayor. There is no element for this part of the text. Use the
Here is a basic template, with an example below:
Insert content of dedication, inside paragraph elements
if in prose.
The dedicatory epistle of TROI1.xml serves as an example:
HONOR this day takes you by the Hand, and giues you
welcomes into your New-Office of Pretorſhip. for
it is no Field, vnleſſe it be Crowned with victory
I preſent (Sir) vnto you,
theſe labours of my Pen
My wiſhes being (as euer they haue bene) to meete with
any Obiect, whoſe reflexion may preſent to your Eyes,
Loue and Duty, In which
which the Cuſtomary Rites of this Day,
And the generall Loue of this City beſtow vpon
him; Sir Iohn Svvinerton, Knight, Lord
Maior of the renowmed City
of London.
To your Lordſhip.
Thomas Dekker
Tag the opening salutation using the
The content of a dedicatory epistle may be either prose or verse. If the content of the dedicatory epistle is prose, use the
Tag the text of the closing salutation using the
Most of the pageant book content belongs in the
In addition to
For further instruction on matters on which the present set of instructions is silent, consult
Encode a Primary Source Transcription
.
A few pageant books include back matter. Tag back matter using the
Most pages in a pageant book will include text in both the head margin and bottom margin of the page. This text is often repeated on multiple pages because some of it remains in the form when the rest of the type is dumped out. We call this kind of text
Most mayoral pageants will have running titles atop each page of textual content. Tag each running title using the
Most mayoral pageants will also have signatures in the formworks at the bottom of the recto side of some leaves (usually the first three leaves in a gathering of four. Tag each signature using the B
. (For citation purposes, we would extrapolate the information B1r
if we were quoting text found on the recto side of that leaf.) In most instances, you will also want to include a
Most mayoral pageants will also have catchwords in the formworks at the bottom of each book page. A catchword anticipates the first word of the following page. Tag each catchword using the
Once you have finished encoding all the structural elements of the pageant book, check the transcription, make corrections, and try to transcribe the characters and words that have been left out by the EEBO transcribers (using the
Do a third encoding pass in which you mark up all the features that add MoEML functionality to our texts, such as dates, toponyms, and names of historical and literary persons of early modern London. For instructions on how to encode a date, refer to MoEML’s guide to encoding dates. For instructions on how to encode toponyms and the names of historical and literary persons, refer to MoEML’s guide to tagging data in our databases.
You will likely encounter names of people who are not currently entered into MoEML’s personography database. In such cases, use the Pageant PERS 2013 Google spreadsheet (in your Googledrive if you’ve been invited to share this document) to request that the name and its biographical information be added to PERS1.xml. Complete workflow instructions for using this spreadsheet can be found in the Introduction
to the spreadsheet and embedded within comments throughout the spreadsheet.
You may infrequently encounter names of locations that have not been previously added to our document structure. In such cases, send the name of the location in an email to
In most cases, the Assistant Project Director,