RE: Corpora: Query about Complete Corpus of Old English

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Date: Thu Oct 18 2001 - 12:57:29 MET DST

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    >I am trying to find out whether the Complete Corpus of Old English
    comprises all existing full texts or
    >samples from the texts only.

    Dear Margaret,

    The Oxford Text Archive distributes, on request and free of charge, the 1998
    edition of the Complete Corpus of Old English. In the TEI header that
    accompanies the Corpus it states:

    The Corpus contains all surviving OE material, excluding some variant texts.
    The texts have been divided into meaningful units, usually editorial
    sentences.

    For full details of the sources used in compilation of this Corpus, the
    following DOE publications should be consulted, e.g.: Cameron, A List of Old
    English Texts in Frank and Cameron, eds., A Plan for the Dictionary of Old
    English (Toronto, 1973)
    Healey and Venezky, A Microfiche Concordance to Old English: The List of
    Texts and Index of Editions</TITLE> (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval
    Studies, 1980; rev. 1985,1995.

    If you email the OTA I can send you a file which list all the texts contined
    within the Corpus,

    Best wishes,
    Alan Morrison
    Oxford Text Archive
    http://ota.ahds.ac.uk



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