hispanicseminary/OSTA: Old Spanish Textual Archive materials

Repository of the semi-paleographical transcriptions

Tables

This folder contains two Excel tables with metadata about the transcriptions, one with codicological and bibliographical data, and one with content descriptions.

tabla-codices.xlsx: contains the metadata of each of the codices included in OSTA.

• HSMS-ID: codex identifier HSMS-0003
• abreviatura HSMS: alphanumeric sequence used by HSMS to identify each of the transcriptions AXP, LOP5
• BETA manid: identification number assigned by PhiloBiblon to each of the manuscripts or printed works where a work appears
• BETA copid: record number assigned by PhiloBiblon to a specific copy of a printed book
• biblioteca: current location of the manuscript or printed edition
• signatura: signature of the manuscript or printed edition
• SPDT-inicio: specific production date, corresponding to the earliest date of the copy of a manuscript or the printing of an edition
• SPDT-fin: specific production date, corresponding to the *latest* date of the copy of a manuscript or to the printing of an edition
• lugar específico: name of the place where the codex was written or printed
• productor específico: name of the copyist or printer when this is known
• formato: format of the codex, it can be manuscrito, incunable (1478-1500), post-incunable (1501-1520), or raro (1521 and later)
• número de folios: total number of folios in the codex
• PhiloBiblon: link to the codex entry in PhiloBiblon
• facsímil digital: link to the digital facsimile of the codex when it exists
• subcorpus:
• transcriptor: the name of the transcriber(s)

tabla-obras.xlsx: contains the metadata of each of the works included in OSTA.

• abreviatura HSMS: alphanumeric sequence used by HSMS to identify each transcription AXP, LOP5
• BETA manid: registration number assigned by PhiloBiblon to each of the manuscripts or printed works where a work appears
• BETA copid: record number assigned by PhiloBiblon to a specific copy of a printed book
• HSMS-ID: codex identifier HSMS-0003
• Obra ID: work identifier HSMS-0003-0001
• BETA cnum: control number assigned by PhiloBiblon  for each entry
• Autor: name of the author when this is known, otherwise it appears as "desconocido"
• Traductor: name of the translator when it is known, otherwise it appears as "desconocido"
• Título: general or standardized title, following the rules established in PhiloBiblon
• folio: the sequence of folios that each work occupies within the codex
• OPDT-inicio: original production date, corresponding to the *earliest* known or supposed date of writing of the original of each work
• OPDT-fin: original production date, corresponding to the *latest* known or supposed writing date of the original of each work
• lengua-1, lengua-2: language or languages used in a given work
• tipo textual: basic typology of the work, can be verse or prose
• materia-1, materia-2, materia-3: taxonomic classification of works by subject matter

Transcriptions

This folder contains the semi-paleographical transcriptions.

Metadata
At the start of each transcription there are six metadata fields:

{RMK: codex identifier.}
{RMK: author.}
{RMK: [alphanumeric sequence used by HSMS to identify each transcription] tittle.}
{RMK: city | printer | date of printing.}
{RMK: city | library | signature.}
{RMK: name of transcriptor(s).}

For manuscript texts, the printer field is blank

{RMK: HSMS-0114.}
{RMK: Ruy González de Clavijo.}
{RMK: [TAM] Historia del gran Tamorlán.}
{RMK: .}
{RMK: Madrid | Biblioteca Nacional de España | MSS/9218.}
{RMK: Juan Luis Rodríguez Bravo, María del Mar Martínez Rodríguez.}

while printed texts have information in all six

{RMK: HSMS-0161.}
{RMK: desconocido.}
{RMK: [VLT] Gran conquista de Ultramar.}
{RMK: Salamanca | Hans Giesser | 1503.}
{RMK: Madrid | Biblioteca Nacional de España | R/518, R/519.}
{RMK: Ray Harris-Northall.}

Additionally, before each work in a transcription, there is an metadata field with the work identifier and standardized title

[fol. 17v]
{CB2.
con tu Paresc'er
& por en cobraria
el bjen que perdi
{RMK: HSMS-0248-0051: En muy esquivas montañas.} Razona<n>do ./ en tal figura
las aues /. fueron bolando
yo aprez. de vna verdura
me falle /. triste cuyda<n>do
& luego en aquella ora

HSMS tags

All paleographic transcriptions by HSMS contributors follow the method established by David Mackenzie and Kenneth Buelow in A Manual of Manuscript Transcription for the Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language (1977; revised 1981, 1984, 1986, 1997), whose initial purpose was to establish the transcription standards used by the Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language. According to these standards, the text is transcribed line by line, respecting the layout of the text on the page and each of its elements (headings, columns, rubrics, glosses, miniatures, etc.), maintaining the spelling of the text and the system of abbreviations, and identifying the interventions (additions and deletions) of copyists and editors. To this end, a series of tags or mnemonics are used.

The computer technology available when the programs used to compile the Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language were developed imposed two significant limitations that affected the format of the transcriptions: the available character set and the markup language. The existing character set was US-ASCII, based on the Latin alphabet as used in modern English, which only has 128 characters available, 32 of which are non-printable, meaning that only 95 characters can actually be used.

A  B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

! " # $ % & ( ' - ) * , . / : ; ? @ [ / ] ^ _ ` { | } ~ + < = >

Consequently, the limitations of US-ASCII forced the use of creative solutions to represent the varied spelling of medieval texts as faithfully as possible:

c' for ç
s' for σ
z' for ƽ
n~ for ñ
h~ for ħ
%    for ¶

As for the markup language used to encode tags, which always appear enclosed in { }, it is an adaptation of IBM Generalized Markup Language (GML), which, unlike modern markup languages (HTML or XML), only differentiated opening tags, using } to close all of them.

The following tables list all HSMS tags that are still used today in the paleographic transcription of new texts.

Structural Tags

Editorial Tags

Language Tags

Special Characters

Letter Characters

Contributors

Over the years, the following individuals have contributed to preparing these transcriptions.