Text size: − / +

Corpus contents

Sort by: author / title

For more sorting options, please use the search feature.

Browse

Here you can browse the Helsinki Corpus. Start by selecting a text from the right-hand table of contents.

Legend

The HTML portion of this Browser uses the following ways to highlight the structural annotation of the Helsinki Corpus. For a full survey of the corpus annotation scheme, please refer to the manual.

Headings, paragraphs, line breaks and line numbering

Headings (TEI element head) are shown in a larger type. Paragraph beginnings (TEI element p) are indicated by an indentation:

IX. PROSE.



    "Hitherto hit sufficeth to shewe the forme of gileful felicitie,
wiche if you Clirely beholde, the ordar than must be to
(Elizabeth I: Boethius, ll. 1–4)

Line breaks follow the annotated lineation of the corpus (TEI element lb). Line numbers are generated on the fly and do not reflect the actual line numbers of the corpus master file.

Text divisions, page breaks and column breaks

Page breaks (TEI element pb) and column breaks (TEI element cb) in the editions used are indicated with a dashed ruler:


Sir Nicholas Throckmorton Knight, shoulde
come in and be heard, for the Prisoner stood upon

page I,65

column 1


his Deliuerance: whereupon Sergeant Stanford presented
hymself to speake.
(Anonymous: The Trial of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, ll. 163–166)

Divisions of texts into samples and subdivisions (TEI element div) are indicated with a double ruler at the division's beginning:

page 27


7. SATIRE ON THE RETINUES OF THE GREAT (1307)



of rybaudȝ y ryme ant rede o mi rolle,
of gedelynges, gromes, of colyn & of Colle,
(Anonymous: Satire on the Retinues of the Great (HP7), ll. 1–3)

Text-level formatting and diacritics

Typographical shifts (italic, gothic, boldface, and so on) in the editions used (TEI element hi[@rend='type']) are rendered in italics:

And yet I shall tell you, that the crumbs of white bread and
honey made into a paste is a good bait for a Carp , and you know
it is more easily made. And having said thus much of the Carp ,
(Walton, Izaak: The Compleat Angler, ll. 460–462)

Abbreviations (TEI element am) are indicated with a tilde (~). Superscripts (TEI element hi[@rend='sup']) are shown as such:

French Wines doe. The Rhenish wine
that is co~monly drunken in Gentlemens
houses and Citizens houses is commonly
a yere old at ye least before it be drunken,
(Turner, William: Book of Wines, ll. 317–320)

Accented letters (TEI element hi[@rend='accented']) are overlined:

dignete / in ssorthede. an ine guodnesse. Þe dignete
(Michel, Dan: Ayenbite of Inwyt, l. 15)

Notes and emendations

Notes (TEI element note) are shown on a yellow background. A mouseover gives the party responsible for the note, e.g.:

innanbordes wel MS: wel WRITTEN ABOVE THE LINE gehioldon,
(Alfred: Alfred's Preface to Cura Pastoralis, l. 12)

Editorial emendations and expansions (TEI element supplied) are shown on a lilac background:

Bot þof he þar was smerld king,
(Anonymous: Cursor Mundi, l. 738)

Foreign languages

Non-English matter (TEI element foreign) is shown in blue:

to ðam casere, Omnes dii gentium demonia, dominus autem
caelos fecit ; Ealle þæra hæðenra godas synd gramlice
(Aelfric: Aelfric's Lives of Saints (14), ll. 18–19)

Performance texts

Speaker labels (TEI element speaker) in performance texts are rendered in boldface and with a mouseover:


Fal.     Sir, I know not how I may deserue to bee your
Porter.

Ford.     I will tell you sir, if you will giue mee the
hearing.
(Shakespeare, William: The Merry Wives of Windsor, ll. 392–395)

Stage directions (TEI element stage) are indicated with a mouseover:


Bon.     Not in my Life, Sir, I have fed purely upon Ale; I
have eat my Ale, drank my Ale, and I always sleep upon Ale.
Enter Tapster with a Bottle and Glass.
    Now, Sir, you shall see
( filling it out )
(Farquhar, George: The Beaux Stratagem, ll. 53–57)

Letters: openers, closers, addresses and postscripts

In the case of letters, openers (TEI element opener) are shown with indentation and a mouseover:


Yet on bord ye R. Charles, this 31 May, 1673.
My deare Betty,

    I wrote the two dayes since of God's goodnes to mee in or late
bataile. I gave the acct of Capt. Trevanions suposed to be killed,
(Haddock, Richard Sr: Letters (to his wife) & Letters (to his son), ll. 60–63)

Closers, postscripts and endorsements in the form of an address (TEI elements closer, postscript and note[@type='address']) have been similarly formatted. The ending of this letter of Elizabeth Masham to her mother illustrates all these:

reson of much busynes which he hath. Both he and we will not sease
to pray daly for hapy being thare and your safe return when the lord
shall se it fitt, to whose protectyon I comit you and ever rest

Your obedent daughter Elizabeth Masham


    When I here from my brother Knightly you shall here.


Endorsed in hand of Sir William Masham : To my much
honoured mother the Lady Barington these
(Masham, Elizabeth: Letters (to her mother), ll. 28–36)

Errata corrections

Errors identified in the old corpus (TEI element sic) are indicated with a light red border, the respective corrections (TEI element corr) with a light blue border. In some cases, a note (TEI element note) accompanies the corrected form:

bismere & seid hit beoð deoflen ꝥ in ham dearieðedearieð Ich
mahte inohreaðeinoh reaðeEdition: inohreaðe wel habben aweld hire ȝef ha nalde
(Anonymous: Katherine, ll. 226–227)