This repository contains material relating to two manuscripts of the medieval French text Somme des vices et vertus (<https://ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/corpus-ling/french-corpora-sources/penn_sources_contents.html#somme-royal-penn>), the Royal ms. and the Cotton ms.
The Royal manuscript is the text underlying the parsed sample (Tysor 1949, lines 1-3000, pp. 1-106) in the Penn-BFM Parsed Corpus of Historical French <https://github.com/beatrice57/mcvf-plus-ppchf>. Lines 2408-3000 were added on April 2, 2022.
The Royal directory contains:
- the entire raw text in Tysor 1949 (lines 1-3497, pp. 1-124) and Allen 1951 (lines 3498-7257, pp. 1-173)
The Cotton manuscript is likely the basis for the translation into Middle English that goes by the name of Ayenbite of Inwyt, which is included in the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English, second edition <https://www.ling.upenn.edu/hist-corpora/PPCME2-RELEASE-4/index.html>.
The Cotton directory contains:
- page images of the manuscript supplied by Suzanne Evans Wagner
- transcripts produced from those images by Beatrice Santorini
- a parsed sample of the Cotton ms. corresponding to lines 838-946, tokens 1,30.823-1,34.927 of the PPCHF sample based on the Royal ms.)
The text encoding throughout is UTF-8.
There exists a further manuscript, MS Mazarine 870, closer to the Cotton than to the Royal (Brayer and Leurquin-Labie 2008).
The files in this repository are distributed under Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0>).
Beatrice Santorini (beatrice DOT santorini AT gmail DOT com)
Allen, Edward Herbert, ed. 1951. Somme des vices et des vertus: Part II. M.A. thesis, University of North Carolina.
Brayer, Edith and Anne-Françoise Leurquin-Labie, eds. 2008. La Somme Le Roi par Frère Laurent. Paris: Société des anciens textes français. F. Paillart. Fully revised version of Brayer's 1940 doctoral dissertation, with a glossary, a helpful introduction, and notes on the text.
Tysor, Ann Brooks, ed. 1949. Somme des vices et des vertus. M.A. thesis, University of North Carolina.