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ANGL0-SAXON CHARTERS

GUIDELINES FOR EDITORS

The Guidelines for Editors were devised in 1984, to provide editors of charters with a set of basic rules and conventions governing the preparation of their editions. The files below represent the current version, incorporating various revisions. They were converted to HTML format in March 1997, by Sean Miller.

Contents:

• I. The range of documents to be covered by the series
• II. The selection of documents within each fascicule
• III. The contents of each fascicule
  1. Preliminaries
  2. Introduction
  3. Abbreviations
  4. List of charters
  5. Concordance
  6. Note on the method of editing
  7. The charters
  8. Appendices
  9. Indexes
• IV. The editing of the charters
  1. Preliminary matter
  2. Editorial procedures
  3. Commentary
• V. Guidelines for preparation of typescript
  1. General
  2. Spelling
  3. Quotations
  4. Numbers
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Punctuation
  7. Upper and lower case
  8. Dates
  9. References to manuscripts
  10. References to Domesday Book
  11. References to charters
  12. References to the Bible
  13. References to books and articles
  14. Conventions for references in footnotes
• Annex 1: Example of layout of a charter
• Annex 2: Description of single sheets
• Annex 3: Note on terminology
• Annex 4: An example of a list of Abbreviations
• Annex 5: Compilation of Old English glossaries
• Annex 6: Compilation of Latin glossaries
• Annex 7: The treatment of boundary clause

Text converted by Sean Miller.
Created: 30 March 1997

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