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Three versions of the Hengwrt Chaucer Digital facsimile are available, as follows:
- The Research Edition, edited by Estelle Stubbs and published on CD-ROM by Scholarly Digital Editions in 2000. This and the standard edition are both available from the SDE website
- The Standard Edition, edited by Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan and published on CD-ROM by Scholarly Digital Editions in 2003
- The Online Edition, published on the National Library of Wales website by Scholarly Digital Editions in 2003 and accessible from the library website (from 1 November 2003)
Each version is designed to serve a particular set of needs. If you wish simply to check the reading of the manuscript at a particular point of the Tales, and would like to see how the manuscript appears at that point, the Online Edition will allow you to do this over the web, quickly and at no cost. If you want to carry out searches on the whole text, to examine the manuscript more closely to check the exact readings at each point, and to have all this on your computer at all times, then the Standard Edition will be appropriate. It is expected that most of those who need this will be students and general readers, and so the edition has been priced to be affordable for that audience, at around the same price as a standard hardback or paperback. If you want to explore the manuscript in the closest possible detail, examining its construction as shown through its quiring, inks, and running heads, researching its differences word-by-word with the Ellesmere manuscript, studying scholarly commentary on all this, together with more sophisticated searching and with access to images which show the smallest detail on the manuscript's surface, then you will need the Research Edition.
The following table sets out the differences between the three editions.
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The differences between the three editions
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Standard Edition | Online Edition |
| Images at 225 dpi, permitting examination of the finest detail |
Images at 112 dpi, permitting verification of all readings |
Images at 56 dpi, showing the appearance of each page |
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A larger image
A full page image |
A larger image
A full page image |
A larger image
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| Full transcripts of all text of all tales, links and glosses |
Full transcripts of all text of all tales, links and glosses |
Full transcripts of all text of all tales, links and glosses |
| Shows all marks of abbreviation in transcripts: |
Marks of abbreviation expanded: |
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| Word and phrase search of all text and SGML encoding: example |
Word search of all text |
Sample word search only |
| Word by word collation of whole text of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts: example |
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| View the manuscript by quires: example |
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| View the manuscript by opening, two pages at a time: example |
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| View each leaf together with its conjugate (that is, see each bifolium as if the manuscript were unbound): example |
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| View each leaf together with its conjugate (that is, see each bifolium as if the manuscript were unbound): example |
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| 'About' page, giving editorial comment and discussion for every page of the manuscript: example |
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| Observations by the editor, Estelle Stubbs, on the construction and writing of the manuscript |
Introduction in English and Welsh by Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan |
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| Articles on the language of the manuscript and on the digital photography, and full manuscript description |
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| Images of all the fragments of binding and other leaves associated with the manuscript |
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| Tables showing inks and running heads in the manuscript, and comparing the Hengwrt and Ellesmere tale orders: example |
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| Buy the research edition (about £70/$110 for an individual license) from the Scholarly Digital Editions website |
Buy the standard edition (about £20/$30 for an individual license) from the Scholarly Digital Editions website |
Consult the online edition free, on the National Library of Wales website (from 1 November 2003) |
