Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E703001-009

Contemporary Diary of Siege of Limerick, 1691

Author: Colonel Michael Richards

Background details and bibliographic information

File Description

John T. Gilbert

Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber , Janet Crawford

2. Second draft.

Extent of text: 6922 words

Publication

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of the History Department, University College Cork
College Road, Cork, Ireland—http://www.ucc.ie/celt

(2005) (2010)

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E703001-009

Availability [RESTRICTED]

Available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of academic research and teaching only.

Sources

    Manuscript source
  1. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS H. 1 .2.
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. John T. Gilbert, Contemporary Diary of Siege of Limerick, 1691 in A Jacobite narrative of the war in Ireland. , Shannon, Shannon University Press (1971) ((First published 1892)) page 283–298

Encoding

Project Description

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

Editorial Declaration

Correction

Text has been proof-read twice and parsed.

Normalization

The electronic text represents the edited text. A few obsolete spellings and usages have been regularized using the reg element. The original is given in the value of the 'orig' attribute. Text supplied by the editor, J.T. Gilbert, is marked sup resp="JTG". In HTML format, both regularized spellings and supplied text are displayed in italics. Words and phrases in languages other than English are tagged; dates are tagged. Encoding is subject to revision.

Quotation

There is no direct speech.

Hyphenation

Soft hyphens are silently removed. When a hyphenated word (and subsequent punctuation mark) crosses a page-break, this break is marked after the completion of the word (and punctuation mark).

Segmentation

div0=the diary; div1=the entry. Page-breaks are marked pb n="".

Standard Values

Dates are standardized in the ISO form yyyy-mm-dd.

Interpretation

Dates are tagged.

Canonical References

This text uses the DIV1 element to represent the diary-entry.

Profile Description

Created: by Colonel Michael Richards (1691)

Use of language

Language: [EN] The text is in English.
Language: [FR] A word is in French.

Revision History