Editing Historical Documents

Michael E. Stevens; Steven B. Burg

doi:10.5771/9780759117532

Summary

This volume is aimed both at more experienced editors, who may wish to skip over the advice offered in the introduction, as well as at those who are new to the craft and want to know how to begin work on publishing historical documents of interest to them.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 1997
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7619-8960-8
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7591-1753-2
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 265
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. About the Authors No access
3. Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 17 - 24
1. Why Edit Historical Documents? No access
2. Scope No access
3. Form of Publication No access
4. Audience No access
5. Sources No access
6. Comprehensiveness No access
1. Selecting Documents for Publication No access
2. Organizing the Documents for Publication No access
3. Challenges of Chronology No access
4. Excerpts, Abstracts, and Calendars No access
1. Introduction to Transcription No access
2. Principles of Emendation No access
3. Methods of Transcription No access
4. Verifying the Text No access
1. Sources No access
2. Handwritten Sources No access
3. Technical or Professional Documents No access
4. Machine-Created Documents No access
5. Forms No access
6. Oral Documents No access
7. Revised, Altered, and Collaborative Documents No access
8. Original Missing or Destroyed No access
9. Other Types of Sources No access
10. Conflated Documents No access
1. Textual Issues No access
2. Date and Placeline No access
3. Salutations and Closings No access
4. Paragraphs No access
5. Capitalization No access
6. Interlineations, Marginalia, and Canceled Passages No access
7. Superscripts and Abbreviations No access
8. Typefaces No access
9. Underlined Passages No access
10. Slips of the Pen and Other Errors No access
11. Nontextual Elements No access
12. Terminal Punctuation No access
13. Interpolation and Missing Text No access
14. Text with Original Annotation No access
15. Enclosures, Attachments, and Envelopes No access
16. Previously Published Documents No access
17. Foreign Languages and Encoded Documents No access
18. Exceptions to Transcription Policies No access
1. Reasons for Annotation No access
2. Types of Annotation No access
3. Provenance Notes No access
4. Textual Notes No access
5. Contextual/Informational Notes No access
1. Choosing Annotation Forms No access
2. Headings No access
3. Introductory Essays No access
4. Headnotes No access
5. Footnotes and Endnotes No access
6. Intratextual Annotation No access
7. Specialized Directories No access
8. Tables, Lists, and Calendars No access
9. Maps and Illustrations No access
10. Annotation in Microform and Electronic Editions No access
11. Abbreviations No access
12. Cross-References No access
13. Researching and Citing Annotation Sources No access
1. Critical Nature of Indexes No access
2. Indexes No access
3. Statement of Indexing Method No access
4. Specialized Indexes No access
5. Indexing Annotation No access
6. Special Problems No access
7. Running Heads and Numbered Documents No access
8. Access to Microform and Electronic Editions No access
1. Front Matter No access
2. Half-Title Page No access
3. Frontispiece No access
4. Title Page No access
5. Copyright Notice No access
6. Dedications and Epigraphs No access
7. Acknowledgments No access
8. Tables of Contents No access
9. Illustrations No access
10. Forewords, Prefaces, and Introductions No access
11. Statement of Editorial Method No access
12. Errata, Addenda, and Appendices No access
Bibliography and Short Titles No access Pages 243 - 252
Permissions No access Pages 253 - 256
Index No access Pages 257 - 265